[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Econometric"

[Shapiro, Fred]

econometric (OED 1931 [6 Feb.])

1931 Buffalo Evening News 3 Jan. 5/1 (Newspapers.com)

The birth of a new organization, christened the Econometric Society, is the material evidence of a closer affiliation between mathematics and statistics.

Fred Shapiro

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