From: Allin Cottrell (cottrell@wfu.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 18 2004 - 23:44:48 EDT
Sorry, it took me a while to respond to this. On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Ian Wright wrote: > Julian Wells is working on the distribution of the profit rate. > According to Julian, some empirical measures are gamma, but many are > not. Do you know what sort of statistic Julian (or others) are using to test the hypothesis that a given empirical distribution is a sample from a gamma distribution? I've done some searching on this but not found anything very useful (the tests I have seen require that the null hypothesis specifies the values of the gamma parameters.) > In the social relations model the distribution can be approximated > by a parameter-mix of ratios of normal variates with means and > variances distributed according to a power-law. This is a > 7-parameter distribution... Gak! Doesn't that sound like over-fitting? Does Occam approve? Allin Cottrell
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