egotistical

adj 1: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own

importance [syn: {egotistic}, {narcissistic}, {self-loving}]

2: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense

of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of

self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of

others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for

normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and

arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: {conceited}, {egotistic},

{self-conceited}, {swollen}, {swollen-headed}, {vain}]

nastistical

A description of a method, thought by

the programmer to be correct statistics, but which is not. An

example is averaging together several averages of samples of

different sizes. The correct way to do this is to average

together all of the individual samples.

(1997-02-12)