On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:37:37 +0800, Bjorn Vang Jensen
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hi Bob,
>
>> In short, I think every eccentric or crazy mathematician will
>> eventually be introduced in that book.
>
>I'll have to disappoint you. In an error that will hopefully be
>corrected in the next printing, you are not mentioned :-)

Ah, but "mathematician" , and even a "mathematical statistician"
are dirty word to any <respectable> statistician :-), and my
sins of having been a mathematician at one time had already
been mercifully washed away by Father Time.  :-)

Touche.


With so much time on my hands, and all the scuba discussion
groups and lists are more or less comatose, where else can I turn
to RANT on things I know than some stat/math newsgroup?  :_


I am having fun TOYING with a world-renowned mathematical-
statistician in a sci.stat.math group now.  If I had mentioned
something Erdos did, he probably would have said he did it
before Erdos. :-)


http://tinyurl.com/6ssmb

That LENGTHY discourse was just the beginning, sufficient to
put everyone here and in all scuba ngs sound sleep before
anyone got through half of it.  His reply was LONGER.  :-)


Then we moved on to a new thread,

http://tinyurl.com/5l9m6

which was prompted by Herman's remark about me:

HR> You have gotten this from the rash Bayesians

not realizing

RF>  That "rash Bayesian" was Jimmie Savage  :-)
RF>  http://www.umass.edu/wsp/stati­stics/tales/savage.html

sometimes referred to by others, and undisputed by anyone, as
the Father of Bayesian Statistics in the USA.
>
>Bjorn

-- Bob.