The dreaded "mill's ratio" made another
appearance recently. Other mutations
appear intermittently.
The correct naming is easy to determine.
This ratio is named for John P. Mills
whose tabulation appears in
Table of the Ratio: Area to Bounding Ordinate,
for Any Portion of Normal Curve.
Biometrika 18: 395--400 (1926)
Thus allowing for differences of opinion
on what should be punctuated and how, three
(and only three) variations appear acceptable.
Mills ratio
Mills' ratio
Mills's ratio
Nick
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