Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "Spencer, John E."

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  • Approximating the distribution of the R/s statistic 

    Conniffe, Denis; Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)
    The R/s statistic, used for many years in hydrology, is increasingly employed in economics, although deficiencies in knowledge about its exact distribution have inhibited progress. Harrison and Treacy (1997) described some ...

  • Aspects of the life and personality of R. C. Geary 

    Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
    Roy Geary, Ireland's greatest statistician, was born on 11 April 1896 in Dublin. His father attained as a boy a high place in UK civil service exams and began his career in the customs office in London but spent most of ...

  • Estimation of the parameter in the discrete "Taxi" problem, with and without replacement 

    Largey, Ann; Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)
    In the continuous uniform distribution [0,N], the Maximum Likelihood estimator of N is known to possess high mean square error for large samples. This paper examines this issue in the discrete case, without replacement ...

  • Geary on inference in multiple regression and on closeness and the Taxi problem 

    Spencer, John E.; Largey, Ann (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
    This paper deals with some minor aspects of Roy Geary's work. Two areas are selected for discussion ? (a) his work with Leser on "paradoxical" situations in multiple regression and (b) his work on estimation of the unknown ...