3 ms·
There's also the example is about how one medical researcher apparently rediscovered the trapezoidal rule, and managed to get a lot of citations to his discover
by copper 16y ago
There's also the example is about how one medical researcher apparently rediscovered the trapezoidal rule, and managed to get a lot of citations to his discovery.
- wlievens 16y agoDo you have a cite on this? Would love to read more.
- teraflop 16y agoI remember seeing this when it showed up on Reddit a couple months ago. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8137688?dopt=Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8137688?dopt=Abstract
- copper 16y agoHere you go: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/12/reinventing_the.html http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010... One of the comments on the original paper (the pubmed link that teraflop cites) did point out that it was "just" the trapezoidal rule, FWIW, so the only people one may want to find fault with were the who stopped at his paper and decided to cite it, rather than dig further.
- wlievens 16y agoWow, that's just sad.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- iuytghyjuyh 16y agoTo be fair, the improved Newton-Raphson method is only from 1669, medical research has only just about reached that now.