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Re: st: RE: RE: RE: A simple but really hard question


From   "Don Spady" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: RE: RE: RE: A simple but really hard question
Date   Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:19:16 -0700

Seduciles sounds a bit sexier
Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Allred" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 15:05
Subject: Re: st: RE: RE: RE: A simple but really hard question


> Yes, I agree! I vote for 16 quantiles. Save sedeciles for Trivial
> Pursuit...
> 
> Nick Cox wrote:
> > 
> > Li, Wenjun
> > >
> > > Thanks, everyone. A friend has suggested to use "double-octiles" for
> > > quantiles based on division into 16 groups of equal
> > > frequency. How do you
> > > think about this?  "Sedeciles", as suggested by Nick Cox
> > > [and Nick Winter], is a possible name too.
> > 
> > "Double-octiles" is a mix of English out of French out of
> > Latin and straight Latin. These linguistic mongrels
> > are a bad idea. (Like "television"...)
> > 
> > I still vote against a new term, as you are asking.
> > 
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> > 
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