Re: st: about residuals and coefficients

[Yuval Arbel <yuval.arbel@gmail.com>]

Here is a list of examples of Stigler's law:

Interesting to know that even the Gauss elimination was named after
the wrong person

One remark regarding the Cobb-Douglass function (that appears in the
list): I believe the original developer of the function was Leonard
Euler. However Cobb and Douglass (in their 1927 AER paper) were the
first to use it to demonstrate that GDP=LABOR^alphaxCAPITAL^(1-alpha)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27s_law

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Yuval Arbel wrote:
>> Nick, that's very interesting. Are we talking about Stigler the econ.
>> noble prize winner?
>
> No, the nobel price winner was George Stigler, while Nick refered to
> Stephen Stigler. They are related though: George is the father of
> Stephen.
>
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