Why would the distribution of the log of the organic compositions be gaussian? Does not matter if you take industries or firms. occ = c/v in log form = log c - log v if c and v are random variables, log occ is then in the form of a sum of random variables, and thus will have a Gaussian distribution Paul Cockshott paul@cockshott.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew_Kliman <Andrew_Kliman@email.msn.com> To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:35 PM Subject: [OPE-L:4045] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: m in Marx's theory > In OPE-L 4044, Julian asked: > > "Is there any reason to think that the distribution of industry OCC's (or > of firm ones, for that matter) would be Gaussian?" > > My first thought was to agree that the answer is no. Then I remembereed > to ask myself what an industry is. Realizing that industries can be > aggregated any damned way one wants, it thus occurred to me that the > distribution of OCCs can probably be anything one wants as well. > > > Andrew Kliman >
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