Stephen Stigler suggested in 1983 that Bayes ' theorem was discovered by Nicholas Saunderson some time before Bayes.

* Stephen M. Stigler ( 1986 ), " Laplace's 1774 Memoir on Inverse Probability ", Statistical Science 1 ( 3 ): 359 – 363.

Stephen Stigler feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by Thomas Simpson, but George Alfred Barnard thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by de Moivre.

* Stigler, Stephen M. " Thomas Bayes ' Bayesian Inference ," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 145: 250 – 258, 1982.

* Stephen Stigler ( 1999 ).

Stephen Stigler, in his 1999 book ( see references, below ) gave a more favorable interpretation, pointing out that some of Craig's reasoning can be justified if his " probability " is interpreted as the log-likelihood ratio.

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On the other hand, Stephen Stigler suggests that Grandi himself " may have been indulging in a play on words ".

* Stephen M. Stigler.

Stigler's law of eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication " Stigler ’ s law of eponymy ".

Stephen Stigler's father, the economist George Stigler, also examined the process of discovery in economics.

* Stephen Stigler, his son

* Stephen Mack Stigler Professor at the University of Chicago

Several notable Public Choice scholars have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, including James M. Buchanan ( 1986 ), George Stigler ( 1982 ), and Gary Becker ( 1992 ).

* S. M. Stigler, Statistics on the Table, Chapter 13, Harvard University Press, ( 1999 ).

* S. M. Stigler, John Craig and the probability of history: from the death of Christ to the birth of Laplace, Journal of the American Statistical Association 81 ( 1986 ), 879 – 887.

Some twelve economists engaged in the IEA's work have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics: Gary Becker, James M. Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, John Hicks, James Meade, Douglass C. North, Elinor Ostrom, Vernon L. Smith, George Stigler and Oliver E. Williamson.

Eight MPS members, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Maurice Allais, James M. Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Gary S. Becker and Vernon Smith have won Nobel prizes in economics.

Stigler was born in Seattle, Washington, graduated from the University of Washington in 1931 with a B. A and then spent a year at Northwestern University from which he obtained his M. B. A in 1932.

* Blank, David M., and George J. Stigler, 1957.

Hayek, and Richard M. Weaver were the first faculty advisors, later to be joined by George Stigler and Benjamin Rogge.

antecedents extend centuries into the past according to Stigler.

* 1991 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner ( b. 1911 )

* 1911 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

Max Weber's article has been cited as a definitive refutation of the dependence of the economic theory of value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, George Stigler, and Friedrich Hayek, though the broader issue of the relation between economics and psychology has come back into the academic debate with the development of " behavioral economics.

That year, Friedman formed what would prove to be lifelong friendships with George Stigler and W. Allen Wallis.

His close friend George Stigler explained, " As is customary in science, he did not win a full victory, in part because research was directed along different lines by the theory of rational expectations, a newer approach developed by Robert Lucas, also at the University of Chicago.

It was later used by John Hicks, George Stigler, and others to include the work of Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons, John Bates Clark and many others.

Steve Keen notes, following George Stigler, that if firms do not react strategically to one another, the slope of the demand curve that a firm faces is the same as the slope of the market demand curve.

Jain proposes ( attributed to George Stigler ): " A partial equilibrium is one which is based on only a restricted range of data, a standard example is price of a single product, the prices of all other products being held fixed during the analysis.

** George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* December 1 – George Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )

* George Stigler is awarded The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

* Stigler, George J., The extent and bases of monopoly, in: The American economic review, Bd.

* Stigler, George J., The theory of price, New York 1987, 4th Ed.

It is located on the bank of the Arkansas River, north northeast of Stigler, Oklahoma and south of Vian, Oklahoma.

Most of the former residents moved to the nearby town of Stigler.

Stigler argues that Bayes intended his results in a more limited way than modern Bayesians ; given Bayes ' definition of probability, his result concerning the parameter of a binomial distribution makes sense only to the extent that one can bet on its observable consequences.

Formally known as the Price Statistics Review Committee, the Stigler Commission was convened in 1961 to study the measurement of inflation in the United States.

George Stigler estimated the impact of monopoly rent on the US economy to be fairly low, but he specially excluded labor monopolies from his studies.

Nonetheless, these scholars had an important influence on the thought of Friedman and Stigler, most notably in the development of price theory and transaction cost economics.

It was during his studies at Northwestern that Stigler developed an interest in economics and decided on an academic career.

Due to a tuition scholarship that he received from the University of Chicago, Stigler enrolled at the university in 1933 to study economics and went on to earn his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1938.

Stigler was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison on espionage charges with two concurrent years for registration violations ; Siegler was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on espionage charges and a concurrent 2-year term for violation of the Registration Act.