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Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al

In the last issue, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity to respond. The tw...

Commentary and Discussion: Reply to Rao et al. and Lee et al.

In the last issue of this journal, I presented a piece that called into question some of the techniques reported in two papers in high-profile journals that purported to provide statistical evidence for the linguistic status of some ancient symbol systems (Sproat 2010a). Not surprisingly, the authors of those two papers took issue with a number of my claims, and have requested the opportunity t...

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A Century with Rao

The current article is a translation of a paper published in Significance journal, 2020, Vol. 17, No. 4 captioned as “C.R. Rao’s ‎Centurychr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))chr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))‎, which has been scripted as a perception of an appreciation  note by involvements of  Bradley Efron, Shun-ichi Amari, Donald B. Rubin, Arni S. R...