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A regression problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. V. Lindley
Affiliation:
Statistical LaboratoryCambridge

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During the Oxford Conference of the Econometric Society in September 1936, Ragnar Frisch proposed a problem in regression theory. A partial solution was found in 1938 by Miss H. V. Allen (1). A more complete solution was given by C. R. Rao (6) in 1947, and in the same year the present author (5) obtained a solution as a particular case of a more general result. These last two papers contained a flaw, and a correct solution was provided by Miss E. Fix (2). This last solution still leaves a part of the problem unanswered, and in the present paper a result of P. Lévy's (4), is used to complete the solution. At the same time further generalizations of the problem are considered and, in the cases of most practical importance, complete solutions are obtained. It is advisable, both from the point of view of rigour and simplicity of analysis, to use a general definition of the conditional expectation of a random variable. Accordingly, the paper begins with a summary of the relevant definitions. These notions were introduced by Kolmogoroff (3). It has been thought worth while giving the definitions here, in forms which are slightly different from Kolmogoroff's and seem more suitable for applications, in order to explain the notation and nomenclature used. The relevant consequences of these definitions are also stated in the form in which they are used.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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