Re: [OPE] Mahalanobis and central planning

From: Dave Zachariah <davez@kth.se>
Date: Sun Mar 15 2009 - 12:56:49 EDT

Paul Cockshott wrote:
> I know nothing about it at all

You probably came across the Mahalanobis distance in your work.
Apparently the same Mahalanobis was also involved in India's five-year
plans. I have not studied what methods were used but Wikipedia gives an
introduction:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalanobis_model

//Dave Z
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