Re: the formula

[Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>]

I understand that 89% of stories about statistics being in
error are actually incorrect.

:)
Doug

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 jbush@pucp.edu.pe wrote:

> 
> many years ago, before some of you were even yet born, i was at the
> scripps institution of oceanography . .  it was a beautiful early
> afternoon so a group of us sat down at an outdoor campus table for some
> camaraderie and food . . . . it was then that we were honored for the
> great chemist and nobel laureate, harold urey, decided to join us . . .  as
> was his right, he decided to pontificate upon a new theory of his on
> movements in the cosmos . . .  it was beautifully presented and the data
> fit perfectly into his mathematics . . and remember, even in those days we
> had probability functions, gaussian distribution, sigma deviations,
> differential equations and such :]]]]
> 
> it was a beautiful presentation for everything meshed together into the
> mathematics so nicely . . .  it was then that one of the lesser nobles
> looked up at urey and ask if he had taken into account the leap years . .
> .  three words rolled from harold urey's mouth like thunder . .  "oh my
> god" . . . . for the mathematics would no longer mesh with the data and
> and the entire theory crumbled . . .
> 
> tish tish
> 
> jamie
> 
> 
> 

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