Re: st: "analytics"

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 02:00 PM 12/28/2007, David Airey wrote:
> .
>
> 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.
I hope everyone appreciates the fact that the 87 staffers who gave up 
their Christmas vacation to work night and day on the Stata 11 
"Analytics" feature are feeling very uncomfortable right now.  :)


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