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Summits Titled by Topography or Whim? A Multinomial Logistic
Regression Study on Mountains, Mounts, and Peaks  by Steph
Abegg, March 2010  Click here to DOWNLOAD MY FULL REPORT
containing more details on the actual analysis!  Project
Question  Why is it Mount Baker and Mount Rainier, and not Baker
Mountain or Rainier Peak? Are Peaks really peakier and Mounts
more massive, or do summit titles follow too much whim and
misnaming for any significant relationships to exist? I first
pondered this question a few years ago, during a cold overnight
bivy or an endless snow slog. So, when the final project in my
statistics class involved conducting a regression analysis on a
dataset of our choice, I knew exactly what my topic would be:
"Are Summits Titled by Topography or Whim? A Mult