Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, January, 1996 by Title

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    • Editorial preface 

      Boyle, Gerry; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      This special issue of the Review marks the centenary of the birth of Roy Geary ? Ireland's greatest statistician ? who was born in Drumcondra, Dublin on 11 April, 1896 and died on 8 February, 1983. It is the third occasion ...

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

      Largey, Ann; Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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's contiguity ratio 

      Unwin, Antony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      Forty years ago Geary published a paper oil spatial statistics introducing the contiguity ratio, c, to measure spatial pattern. He discussed c not only as a direct measure but as a regression diagnostic for assessing ...

    • More about Geary and the "Taxi" problem 

      Conniffe, Denis; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      Geary's treatment of the "taxi" problem was recently re-examined by Spencer and Largey (1993). This paper investigates the topic further, partly to place Geary's estimator in the context of more general methods and also ...

    • Theoretical foundations of the "Geary Method" for international comparisons of purchasing power and real incomes 

      Neary, J. Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      This paper provides a centenary review of the method of calculating real incomes and purchasing power parities proposed by Roy Geary. This method is the most widely used in major international comparisons, but it is often ...