R help - Jan 2008 - [Off Topic] searching for a quote

Dear community,

I'm trying to track down a quote, but can't recall the source or the
exact structure - not very helpful, I know - something along the lines
that:

80% of [applied] statistics is linear regression ... 

?

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Thanks,

Andrew

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University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia         Fax: +61-3-8344-4599
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the paper

Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares for Maximum Likelihood Estimation,
and some Robust and Resistant Alternatives, P. J. Green, Journal of the
Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), Vol. 46, No. 2.
(1984), pp. 149-192,

included the commentary (p 182)

   Jennrich (University of California at L.A.): ... I have long been a
proponent of the following unified field theory for statistics:  "Almost
all of statistics is linear regression, and most of what is left over is
non-linear regression."

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> I'm trying to track down a quote, but can't recall the source or
the
> exact structure - not very helpful, I know - something along the lines
> that:
>
> 80% of [applied] statistics is linear regression ...
>
> ?
>
> Does this ring a bell for anyone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Robinson
> Department of Mathematics and Statistics            Tel: +61-3-8344-9763
> University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia         Fax: +61-3-8344-4599
> http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr
> http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/
>
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