Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, January, 1996 by Author "Geary, R. C."
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A visual test for a unit root: Geary's count of sign changes revisited
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Prompted by Geary's (1970) suggestion in a different context, the stationarity of a plotted time series can be assessed by simply counting the number of times the plot crosses the trend line linking the first and last ... -
Determination of linear relations between systematic parts of variables with errors of observation the variances of which are unknown
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Given a sufficient number of instrumental variables significantly correlated with the investigational variables, consistent estimates of the coefficients of the linear relations can be determined (if they exist), without ... -
Editorial preface
(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 ... -
More about Geary and the "Taxi" problem
(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 ...
