[R] R vs. Splus in Pharma/Devices Industry

[(Ted Harding)]

On 16-Jun-07 01:12:18, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 00:43 +0100, ted.harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
>> On 15-Jun-07 19:43:55, John Kane wrote:
>> > --- Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> >> On 6/15/07, Nicholas Lewin-Koh <nikko at hailmail.net>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > [...]
>> >> I think you mean A, not Z.  First there was S, then
>> >> there was R.
>> > 
>> > We're regressing !!!!
>> 
>> But not to mediocrity! [1]
>> Ted.
>> 
>> [1] Practical Regression and Anova using R
>>     Julian J. Faraway (July 2002), page 15.
>> 
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Faraway-PRA.pdf
> 
> 
> Which in turn is of course paraphrasing Galton's "Regression Toward
> Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature”. Journal of the Anthropological
> Institute 15 : 246-63, 1886.
> 
> http://galton.org/essays/1880-1889/galton-1886-jaigi-regression-stature.
> pdf
> 
>:-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc

Indeed! My reason for referencing it that way was to indicate
obliquely that we've moved on a lot since Galton, especially
in R :-) :-)  [ including one left over from last time :-) ]

Ted.

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