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From: colinr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Colin Rose)
Subject: Re: Not social scientists
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Once upon a time, someone wrote  (perhaps P.G.Kenny@bradford.ac.uk):

>>By the way, the KL transform is just another name for the Hotelling transform.
>>Harry Hotelling was a social scientist who invented the method back in 1933... 


... to which Herman Rubin replied:     
>>  Harold Hotelling was very definitely NOT a social scientist!
>>  His PhD was from Stanford in mathematics, and he was a mathematical 
>>  statistician, although I doubt that he ever had a statistics course.  It is 
>>  true that the first place he developed a mathematical statistics program
>>  was in the Department of Economics at Columbia; at that time,
>>  mathematical economics was a hot field, and needed more mathematics
>>  than economics.


If one works in the social sciences, I suspect one is likely to
be termed a social scientist. Hotelling certainly made a substantial
contribution to economics, which many consider to be a social science.
In economics, he is probably best remembered for a 1929 paper
in the Economic Journal entitled "Stability in Competition". 
I might add that this is a mildly non-mathematical journal,
and the paper itself is substantially 'economic' in content.

Cheerio

Colin


Colin Rose 
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