Dave,
The Oxford Universal dictionary indicates that the word, "analytics" stems from around
1590, and means 1) "Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with Analysis; resolving components
into their elements. 2) Addicted to analysis (1805). or as a substitute title of Aristotle's treatises
on Logic. 1) gen. The science and art of analys(1641). The part of logic which treats
of analysis (1590)... the application of algebra to geometry. " Clearly the marketers got ahold
of this and melted it into a buzz word.
Cheers,
Bob Yaffee
----- Original Message -----
From: David Airey <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:02 pm
Subject: st: "analytics"
To: [email protected]
> .
>
> Where did this word come from? It strikes me as one of those words
> that is made up by the business community. Was it? Or was it made up
>
> by statisticians? Wikipedia and Wiktionary are not satisfying in their
>
> explanation. The term permeates SAS and SPSS sites pages, but not
> Stata pages. I think that's a good thing.
>
> -Dave
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
