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

[Marc Schwartz]

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