roger koenker <roger <at> ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu> writes: > > A nice survey of this territory is: > > http://books.google.com/books?id=TN3_d7ibo30C&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=stigler+normal+oxymoron&source=web&ots=OwGhmnDk3O&sig=J7ou_L8-_Mu4L14c3KJAhefrD4I&hl=en > > I particularly like the phrase: "[normal] is in this respect > a rare one-word oxymoron." >
Apparently (at least according to the all-knowing Internet), these are "contronyms" ( http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1217396 ). My favorite statistical example is "overdispersion", which in most of statistics means "more variance than expected", but in spatial statistics is also used to mean "more regular than a random distribution", i.e. "less variance than expected" (!!) cheers Ben ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
