This is an archive of files for the paper

The Median is the Message: Wilson and Hilferty's Reanalysis of C.S. Peirce's
Experiments on the Law of Errors


The paper is written in Sweave so all the text and computations are embedded
in the file MiM.Rnw.  This is processed with the command:

	Rnw2pdf MiM

which first runs R to do the computation and then processes a resulting tex file.
The shell command Rnw2pdf expects that you have a reasonably functional tex
installation as well as a reasonably current R installation.

There are two subdirectories:  

	o data:  containing the data files for the Peirce experiments, and 
	o images:  containing the images of the raw data as published by Peirce.  

Note that an R data file Peirce.rda is included in my quantreg package
with a documentation file, so unless you really want to see gory details of what
you saw in the above paper, this is an easier access route:

	require(quantreg)
	data(Peirce)
	?Peirce

Auxillary stuff:

See http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/articles/samuelson-2/index.html
for the following quote from Paul Samuelson about Wilson:

	Also, for me, I was able to become the sole proteg of the polymath 
	Edwin Bidwell Wilson, who had himself been the sole proteg of Yale's 
	great physicist Willard Gibbs.
