Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "Geary, R.C."

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    • 2 exercises in simple regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      While the two exercises are independent in that they purport to answer separate questions, methodologically they are very similar. They both compare the efficiency of different methods of estimation of parameters by the ...

    • Alvin-Toffler on the Future 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This important book has the supreme merit that it makes one think. One's conclusions may differ from the author's everion his own very voluminous data and may differ more on attaching weight to factors of which he is deemed ...

    • Are Irelands social security payments too small - note 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      On several occasions in recent years, Ireland has been taken to task for the alleged smallness, percentage-wise, of its social security payments, by comparison with other countries in Western Europe. Comparisons are odious, ...

    • Are Irelands social security payments too small - rejoinder 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      Informed discussion of this important topic is to be welcomed, i f not necessarily on the issues, or in the tone, of the foregoing Comment (or of this rejoinder). The purpose of the Comment is stated at the outset to be ...

    • Extensions to a quantitative analysis of the degree of integration between Irish and UK financial markets 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In a recent issue of this Review, Browne and O'Connell (1978) find a close relationship between the Irish and the UK interest rates simultaneous in time with the magnitudes of the UK fluctuation "completely transmitted ...

    • Fisher, R.A.. - a memoir 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Since my mathematical statistics, such as they were, are the greatest thing in my life, R.A. Fisher, their finest exponent, was the greatest man in my life, though I had little personal contact with him. There were very ...

    • Identification of cause and effect in simple least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      Given data ( X , Yt, t=i, z, . . . , T, can we distinguish which variable is causal?

    • Identification of individual aberrations in least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In single equation LS regression the common practice is. to test goodness-of- fit by the standard error o f estimate s and probable absence, of residual autoregression by the Durbin-Watson d, or the more recent count Of ...

    • Method of estimating elements of an interindustry matrix knowing row and column totals 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      It is a pity, but a fact of life, that few (if any) countries produce IO tables annually. The more common situation is that many countries produce these tables at intervals of years and then only with long delays. However, ...

    • Method of path coefficients and OLS regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      Some time ago Sir Maurice Kendall suggested to the writer that a study of the theory and practice of path coefficients might be rewarding as shedding light on the still dark patches in the theory of relationship between ...

    • Monetarism in ireland - a simple statistical approach 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper deals with the relationship in Ireland between money and prices during the period since 1960. It is shown that the causal relationship is from money to prices very much more than the other way about. Chain of ...

    • Randomization and Von Neumann function - variance formula and a problem 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      A difficulty with randomisation treatment was expressed as follows: `The problem is to determine if there is a contiguity effect, i.e. if c (the contiguity ratio) has a significantly low value after the elimination of q ...

    • Recent price trend in Ireland 

      Geary, R.C.; Pratschke, J.L.; Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      In the first section we set out the major price trends since 1958 and indicate the principal cause of price inflation. In later sections we examine the effects of productivity, wage and profit rates, prices of imports and ...

    • Science of econometrics any use for short-term forecasting - enquiry based mainly on irish educational statistics 1947-1967 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)
      As his title indicates, the writer, wisely or unwisely, proposes to hang a very general and important question on the highly specialized inquiry with which this paper mainly deals: in fact to make a prima facie case for a ...

    • Sensitivity of test of significance - problem posed 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      This paper contains a preliminary examination of the effect of using the dichotomy (o, i ) instead of actual measurement in the study of relationship. First, the simplest case possible is dealt with, in the hope of inspiring, ...