[R] [OT] "normal" (as in "Guassian")

[Jim Lemon]

Douglas Bates wrote:
 > ...
 > Taking this to a whole new level of "off topic", I wonder if Stigler's
 > Law is self-referential?  That is, should Stigler's Law more correctly
 > be attributed to someone else?

The complaint has been around for a long time. Zeno's paradox "Achilles 
and the tortoise" is said to have been first enunciated by Parmenides. 
Perhaps Stigler should have titled his paper "Stigler's Law of Lathosonyms".

Jim