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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 207–233.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Marcel Boumans Abstract This article shows that Friedman's experiences with the research conducted at the Statistical Research Group (SRG) significantly shaped his 1953 methodology. These experiences gave him the ideas for a methodology for statistical analysis when dealing with “lousy data...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 235–257.
Published: 01 December 2011
... the variety of views that arose among economists as to the significance of Douglas's results and, more generally, the potential value of the type of work he was doing. The second part examines the work of a group of agricultural economists who successfully established the Cobb-Douglas regression as a research...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 25–70.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Statistical Association 37 : 313 -24. ____. 1947 . Sampling and Sorting Ammunition for the Attack on Normandy. American Society for Quality Control Conference Papers 1 : 275 -81. Statistical Research Group, Columbia University. 1945 . Sequential Analysis of Statistical Data: Applications . SRG...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (3): 511–527.
Published: 01 September 2007
... . Sequential Analysis . New York: John Wiley. ____. 1950 . Statistical Decision Functions . New York: John Wiley. Wallis, W. A. 1980 . The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945. Journal of the American Statistical Association 70 : 320 -30. Wallis, W. A., and H. V. Roberts. 1956 . Statistics...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (Suppl_1): 130–152.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Correspondence on Methodology between Milton Friedman and Edwin B. Wilson: November-December 1946. Journal of Economic Literature 32 : 1197 -1203. Wallis, W. Allen. 1980 . The Statistical Research Group. Journal of the American Statistical Association 75 : 320 -30. Witte, E. S. 1940 . Letter...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (S1): 261–283.
Published: 01 December 1991
... : Harvard University Press . Stockfisch Jack . 1987 . The Intellectual Foundations of Systems Analysis . RAND P-7401 ( December ). Wallis Allen . 1980 . The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945 . Journal of the American Statistical Association 75 , no. 370 : 320 – 30...
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History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (Supplement): 283–303.
Published: 01 December 1992
... on, 51, 129 Colonel Blotto game. See Allocation of Business games, 249, 250 forces (military) Columbia Statistical Research Group, Calculation of solutions of games. See 64 Solutions of games, calculation Columbia University, 186...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (Suppl_1): 111–136.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... Allen. 1980 . The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945. Journal of the American Statistical Association 75 : 320 -30. Webb, Sidney, and Arnold Freeman, eds. 1912 . Seasonal Trades . London: Constable and Co. Wilkinson, Thomas. 1875 . Inaugural Address on the Origin and History...
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History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (Supplement): 29–76.
Published: 01 December 1992
... of Games and Economic Behavior . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Wald , A. 1945 . Statistical Functions which Minimize the Maximum Risk. Annals of Mathematics 46 . 2 ( April ): 265 -80. Wallis , W. Allen . 1980 . The Statistical Research Group. Journal of the American...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 311–325.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., 39, 103 colo­nial­ism, 81, 88, 103 Colum­bia University, 5, 103, 109, 207 8, 226. See also Statistical Research Group (SRG) Combined Shipping Adjustment Board, 7, 113 17 Commissariat Général au Plan (CGP), 237 38, 244, 249, 251 53 Communist Party, 170, 176. See also Chi­nese Communist Party (CCP...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 June 2024
... that will be meaningful.” When the war started, Hotelling and a team of university colleagues (Abraham Wald, Milton Friedman, and Leonard “Jimmy” Savage were among the most prominent members) founded the Statistical Research Group, to help with the war effort. Hotelling spent thirty-nine months, starting from July...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 107–132.
Published: 01 December 2024
... wartime role followed from his recognized standing as a mathematical economist. W. Allen Wallis and Milton Friedman, the director and associate director, respectively, of the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University (a component of the Applied Mathematics Panel), were appointed...
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History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (Supplement): 309–325.
Published: 01 December 1998
..., 1920– 266–74 1960, 100–101, 105 progressive-pragmatist education, Statistical Research Group (SRG), 136 – 39 265 “The Chicago Trust Conference” Committee for Economic Develop- (Hatfield), 188...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 239–269.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Research Group, 1942–1945.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 75 : 320 – 30 . Wallis W. A. Friedman M. 1942 . “The Empirical Derivation of Indifference Functions.” In Studies in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics , edited by Lange O. McIntyre F. Yntema...
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History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 31–78.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Business . Working paper, Institute for Consumer Anti-Trust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Wallis, W. Allen. 1980 . The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945. Journal of the American Statistical Association 75 (June): 320 -35. Willard L[ong] Thorp. 1947 . Current Biography...
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History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (1): 51–94.
Published: 01 March 1998
.... Review of Economics and Statistics 31 : 77 -86. Wallis , W. A. 1980 . The Statistical Research Group 1942–1945. Journal of the American Statistical Association 75 . 370 : 320 -55. Walters , A. 1977 . Untitled comment. In Intrilligator 1977. Warsh , D. 1988 . “Yellow Rain...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 85–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
...-university environ- ments (Fontaine 2015).2 The Statistical Research Group or the RAND Corporation, among others, cradled decision theory, statistics, linear pro- gramming, operations research, system analysis, and game theory.3 In this A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford 87 4. Accordingly, we...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 168–190.
Published: 01 December 2020
... referred Weaver to his former stu- dents Allen Wallis, who had gone on to the Stanford University econom- ics department, and Jacob Wolfowitz, who was teaching in the New York public school system. They formed the core of a new Columbia-based Statistical Research Group.2 It became one of several specialist...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2024
... . This development led to the creation of the UN Statistical Commission, which set up the Sub-Commission on Statistical Sampling in 1947. Boumans sheds new light on Friedman's wartime experience at the Statistical Research Group (SRG) Division of War Research at Columbia University and the role...
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History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (Supplement): 260–292.
Published: 01 December 1998
... consultant to the Applied Mathemat- ics Panel of the National Defense Research Council in recognition of his work in putting together the Statistical Research Group (SRG) at Columbia. Until it was dissolved in 1946, the SRG worked on the test- ing of bombsights, the statistical effectiveness of various...