{"id":106,"date":"2006-10-16T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-10-16T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T19:49:36","slug":"106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Inferring discoverers from discovery names"},"content":{"rendered":"

STIGLER’S LAW OF EPONYMY<\/p>\n

\"Stigler\"<\/div>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

This useful principle helps one think twice before attributing a “named” statistical construct to the person for which it is named. Gaussian distributions, for instance, might better be called de Moivrian distributions, for Abraham de Moivre.<\/p>\n

Does Stigler’s law apply to Stigler’s law? Of course, Stigler is clever. He apparently attributes the law<\/a> to Robert K. Merton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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