Inferring discoverers from discovery names
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STIGLER’S LAW OF EPONYMY Statistician and Historian of Science Stephen Stigler told Decision Science News about a useful law. Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. This useful principle helps one think twice before attributing a “named” statistical construct to the person for which it is named. Gaussian distributions, […]
