Re: [ABE-L]: Mais : um pouco de conversa boa

[Basilio de Bragança Pereira <basilio@hucff.ufrj.br>]

Caro David
Achei sua frase
"what I believe in is least squares.
Probability is for fun, but least squares are for truth, more or less".
genial .
E verdade toda estimacao em econometria , analise espaco-temporal, series 
temporais  e a maioria dos metodos que mencionei (pedi informacao) e etc  
sao na verdade least squares.
Nos e que nao temos coragem (ou sabemos identificar )e explicitar
Obrigado
Basilio 



David Brillinger Escreveu: 

> Caros Basilio, Carlinhos e Gauss, 
>
> Por comecar, algunos resultados da Copa de Oro: 
>
> Canada 1   Jamaica 0
> Canada 1   El Salvador 0 
>
> OK, tenho um livro prezado, "Cidades". 
>
> Em este livro podemos ler "To a good friend, who also happens to be our favourite classical statistician. Carlos e Sergio"
> !
> The XXth and XIXth centuries have been mentioned in the conversao. 
>
> I am not sure just which century the above writers thought I belonged to, but I take mine as the XVIIIth because what I believe in is least squares.
> Probability is for fun, but least squares are for truth, more or less. 
>
> As evidence I can tell you that one semester I taught our principal graduta course in applied statistics never using probability. I wondered if I was
>  going to make it to the end of the semester around the 10th week, of 15, but when I started doing exploratory time series I realised that one could
> go on forever. 
>
> For those of you who don't know me, here's a hint - Generalized harmonic analysis and its uncle dynamical systems analysis. 
>
> Ate logo, David 
>
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