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Just because terms become established doesn't mean the way they got about becoming established was through clarity and careful deliberation. In fact I'd go as f
by tpoacher 6y ago
Just because terms become established doesn't mean the way they got about becoming established was through clarity and careful deliberation. In fact I'd go as far as saying that more than half of the terms/notation in such fields sound like they were created as silly placeholder names which then stuck. So much so that we need a translation of their actual meaning each time they're used. Even something as basic as p(x).
- pugio 6y agoI still feel mental friction when contemplating anything to do with "regression" because the word doesn't seem to capture what the technique(s) (e.g. linear, logistic) actually do. I have looked into the historical context and reason for the use of the word (the technique was first popularized in something which "regressed to the mean"), as well as its development, and it still bugs me any time.