Talk:Steinmetz

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Which Steinmetz or Steinitz wrote a paper on a paradox?[edit]

I am trying to look up the right Steinmetz that was a mathematician, and wrote a paper on a paradox of statistics, where the more unrelated the information is, the better it is to add to a table, as it produces a nicer bell curve.

Does anybody know which mathematician that was? I think his name was either Steinmetz or Steinitz. Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 07:52, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It took a few minutes of searching in a search engine, but the guy I was thinking of, was Charles Stein, who devised an example in decision theory. This was widely popularized as "Stein's Paradox" in an article in Scientific American. Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 08:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]