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In article <BzvAs7.sI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.110116.1258@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>
>>Steve Gardner writes:
>>"Imagine having to pay Newton for the 
>>        algorithm for calculating the derivative of a polynomial."
>
>>Actually, Sir R.A. Fisher did something somewhat analogous to that
>>(the publication/ academic equivalent). He invented the method of
>>maximum likelihood, a powerful general method for deriving all sorts
>>of statistical tests, and kept it a secret. He then derived one test
>>after another, published each one separately in the journals, and got
>>payment for each usage of the method, in effect, in the form of kudos
>>if not money.
>
>This is the utter nonsense put out by the admirers of Sir Ronald who
>keep blissfully unaware of what everyone else knew and did.  I do not
>doubt that he rediscovered maximum likelihood, and that mathematical
>statistic was in the doldrums at that time, but there were those who
>knew the at least century old method, and were using it quietly.

Don't complain or assert "utter nonsense" to me, Herman Rubin; I got
the account directly from my old M.I.T. Statistics Professor, R.A.
Freeman. As a famous and well informed Professor (perhaps you know his
works), he'd hardly have been "blissfully unaware of what everyone else
knew and did."

David

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