What is the correct English pronounciation of the function name "arsinh"? (Please excuse that this is is quite an R question, but this list is the best place I can think of for people to know the answer.) Wolfgang Huber DKFZ Dep. Molecular Genome Analysis 69120 Heidelberg Germany -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Do you mean the inverse hyperbolic sin (arcsinh)? In my experience the hyperbolic functions are usually pronounced with a "ch" (as in "church") for tanh and sinh or "sh" (for cosh) at the end: "ark-sinch" would be a transcription. On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Wolfgang Huber wrote:> > What is the correct English pronounciation of the function name "arsinh"? > > (Please excuse that this is is quite an R question, but this list is the best place I can think of for people to know the answer.) > > > Wolfgang Huber > DKFZ > Dep. Molecular Genome Analysis > 69120 Heidelberg > Germany > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-- 318 Carr Hall bolker at zoo.ufl.edu Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Ben Bolker wrote:> Do you mean the inverse hyperbolic sin (arcsinh)? In my experience the > hyperbolic functions are usually pronounced with a "ch" (as in "church") > for tanh and sinh or "sh" (for cosh) at the end: "ark-sinch" would be a > transcription.In R (and C) it is asinh(), so a-sinch or a-shine. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Ben Bolker wrote:> Do you mean the inverse hyperbolic sin (arcsinh)? In my experience the > hyperbolic functions are usually pronounced with a "ch" (as in "church") > for tanh and sinh or "sh" (for cosh) at the end: "ark-sinch" would be a > transcription.the inverse hyperbolic sin is often called "arsinh" (pronounced ar-sinch) rather than "arcsinh" for good reason. arcsin(x) is the _arc_ (ie angle) with sin equal to x arsinh(x) is an _area_ corresponding to a sinh of x albyn -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.reed.edu/~jones Albyn Jones jones at reed.edu Reed College, Portland OR 97202 (503)-771-1112 x7418 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._