Prof. Larry Wasserman in his Normal Deviate Blog, Dec 16, 2012 suggests New Names For Statistical Methods:
Bayesian Inference.
Bayes did use his famous theorem to do a calculation. But it was really Laplace who systematically used Bayes' theorem for inference.
New Name: Laplacian Inference.
Bayesian Nets.
A Bayes nets is just a directed acyclic graph endowed with probability distribution. This has nothing to do with Bayesian - oops, I mean Laplacian - inference. According to Wikipedia, it was
Judea Pearl who came up with the name.
New Name: Pearl Graph.
Unbiased Estimator.
Talk about a name that promises more than it delivers.
New Name: Mean Centered Estimator.
Credible Set. This is a set with a specified posterior probability content such as: here is a 95 percent credible set. Might as well make it sound more exciting.
New Name: Incredible Set.
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No constant is used more than 0. Since no one else has ever names it, this is my chance for a place in history.
New Name: Wasserman's Constant.
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