----- Original Message -----
From: "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...>
To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Nostratica] One, first, head, finger


> Mathematics based comparative method.
>
> For the first time the results can be said to be "rigorous" instead of "heuristic".
>
> The best part is not the math. That can be found in a chapter on any book on statistics. The best part is all the linguistics he goes through to explain why all that must be done.

Would you care to give a couple of examples showing what is innovative in that approach? Is there anything new Kessler has contributed rather than simply reproducing results that are already well known?

Piotr