diff --git a/lectures/_static/quant-econ.bib b/lectures/_static/quant-econ.bib index b6cf7f9a8..e5db1a5a0 100644 --- a/lectures/_static/quant-econ.bib +++ b/lectures/_static/quant-econ.bib @@ -3,6 +3,24 @@ Note: Extended Information (like abstracts, doi, url's etc.) can be found in quant-econ-extendedinfo.bib file in _static/ ### +@article{wallis1980statistical, + title={The statistical research group, 1942--1945}, + author={Wallis, W Allen}, + journal={Journal of the American Statistical Association}, + volume={75}, + number={370}, + pages={320--330}, + year={1980}, + publisher={Taylor \& Francis} +} + +@book{Burns_2023, + title={Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns}, + author={Burns, Jennifer}, + year={2023}, + publisher={Farrar, Straus, and Giroux}, + address = {New York} +} @article{Orcutt_Winokur_69, issn = {00129682, 14680262}, diff --git a/lectures/wald_friedman.md b/lectures/wald_friedman.md index 4ffd05a2c..ffcc047ea 100644 --- a/lectures/wald_friedman.md +++ b/lectures/wald_friedman.md @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ Milton Friedman described a problem presented to him and Allen Wallis during World War II, when they worked at the US Government's Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. +```{note} +See pages 25 and 26 of Allen Wallis's 1980 article {cite}`wallis1980statistical` about the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University during World War II for his account of the episode and for important contributions that Harold Hotelling made to formulating the problem. Also see chapter 5 of Jennifer Burns book about +Milton Friedman {cite}`Burns_2023`. +``` + Let's listen to Milton Friedman tell us what happened > In order to understand the story, it is necessary to have an idea of a