Re: st: about residuals and coefficients

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

P.S. I looked at the following link regarding Albert Einstein's famous
formula E=Mc^2

According to their version - it was discovered more or less
simultaneously by three researchers, but only Einstein provided a
plausible explanation

Einstein was haunted since childhood with the thought: "what would
have happened if I chase after a beam of light?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cobb-Douglas [sic]: That's not a demonstration; it's a hypothesis!
>
> I once tried to work out some history for power (allometric, scaling)
> laws or functions. Particular fractional powers such as square root or
> cube root are ancient. The idea that a power can be any fraction
> (loosely) seems to have emerged in the 16th century, alongside
> logarithms. You would have to mention Galileo's work here too. So
> Euler brings up the rear and doesn't even get a bronze medal, although
> no doubt whatever he did was done more rigorously than before. But
> these ideas often emerge slowly: it is not as if someone said "Here is
> a new general idea, which we should call a power law."
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 5 September 2013 11:05, Yuval Arbel <yuval.arbel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> -- Maarten
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Dr. Yuval Arbel
School of Business
Carmel Academic Center
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Haifa 33031, Israel
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