Julian wrote: Julian > Is there any reason to think that the distribution of industry OCC's (or of > firm ones, for that matter) would be Gaussian? > > Haste means I don't have time to look in Farjoun and Machover, but I don't > recall them discussing this point: has anyone else? > > If I had to give a guess off the top of my head, I'd predict some skewed > distribution. Fair enough, probably the distribution of the log of the occ s will be Gaussian giving rise to a skewed distribution as you say. Paul Cockshott paul@cockshott.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <P.J.Wells@OPEN.AC.UK> To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:00 PM Subject: [OPE-L:4044] RE: Re: Re: Re: m in Marx's theory > I'm hastily catching up on OPE: > > Gil replied (in #930) to a comment by Paul C that > > > >More abstractly, given a large set of industries with random > > distributions of > > >organic compositions of capital - following *some appropriate Gaussian > > >distribution* > > > (emphasis added) > > > Julian >
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