>I'm under the impression that [...] now it's very
>trendy to do stats work in history. It has a buzzword that I've forgotten
Cliometrics.  (Clio was the Muse of history.  You'll be delighted to hear
that her attributes were the heroic trumpet and the clepsydra.  Ta-ra!)
(Oh, all right.  A water clock.)
Damien Broderick