Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist
研究了弗里德曼的统计学教育背景及其接触的不同方法论学派,指出其1953年方法论论文的论点缺乏依据。
In this paper I study Milton Friedman’s statistical education, paying special attention to the different methodological approaches (Fisher, Neyman and Savage) to which he was exposed. I contend that these statistical procedures involved different views as to the evaluation of statistical predictions. In this light, the thesis defended in Friedman’s 1953 methodological essay appears substantially ungrounded