Stephen Stigler
Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler.
Quotes
- No scientific discovery is named after its original inventor.
- "Stigler's law of eponymy", Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, ser. 2, vol. 39 (1980), pp. 147–157
External links
Encyclopedic article on Stephen Stigler on Wikipedia
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