Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist

History of Political Economy 39 (3):511-28 (2007)
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Abstract

In this paper I study Milton Friedman’s statistical education, paying special attention to the different methodological approaches (Fisher, Neyman and Savage) to which he was exposed. I contend that these statistical procedures involved different views as to the evaluation of statistical predictions. In this light, the thesis defended in Friedman’s 1953 methodological essay appears substantially ungrounded

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David Teira
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

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