Clifford Hildreth
Clifford G. Hildreth | |
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Born | |
Died | August 15, 1995 | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Institution | Michigan State University; University of Minnesota |
Field | Econometrics |
Alma mater | Iowa State University University of Kansas |
Doctoral advisor | Gerhard Tintner Leonid Hurwicz |
Doctoral students | Leigh Tesfatsion |
Contributions | Hildreth–Lu estimation |
Clifford George Hildreth (December 8, 1917 – August 15, 1995) was an American
A native of McPherson, Kansas, Hildreth earned his bachelor's from the University of Kansas before entering Iowa State University for graduate studies. After years at University of Chicago and North Carolina State University, he joined the faculty at Michigan State, before going to the University of Minnesota in 1964 where he held joint appointments in the Department of Economics, the School of Statistics and the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He retired in 1988. His most notable contribution was a procedure for estimating a linear model in the presence of autocorrelated error terms, known as Hildreth–Lu estimation.
In 1960 he was elected as a
Bibliography
- Clifford Hildreth; Francis George Jarrett (1 December 1955). A Statistical Study of Livestock Production and Marketing. Wiley. OCLC 7663737.
- Clifford Hildreth (1979). An Expected Utility Model of Grain Storage and Hedging by Farmers. Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota. OCLC 6878469.
References
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
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