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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (born February 8, 1845, Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland—died February 13, 1926, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an Irish economist and statistician who innovatively applied mathematics to the fields of economics and statistics.
Francis Edgeworth was an Irish-born statistician who examined correlation and methods of estimating correlation coefficients in a series of papers. View three larger pictures. Biography.
Edgeworth was an Irish economist (1845-1926), professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford, whose most important contributions to economic science were statistical in nature, primarily in the area of index numbers, highlighting also the mathematical apparatus needed for the drawing of indifference curves and the contract curve, fro...
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (February 8, 1845 – February 13, 1926) was an Irish polymath, a highly influential figure in the development of neo-classical economics, and contributor to the development of statistical theory. He was the first to apply certain formal mathematical techniques to individual decision making in economics.
Jan 1, 2017 · Edgeworth was a major figure in the development of neoclassical economics, and one of its most original theorists, making a wide range of lasting contributions. After describing his approach to economics, this article discusses his early work in moral philosophy,...
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845 - 1926) Edgeworth, a professor at King’s College London, was a friend of Jevons'. His own contributions included the idea of the indifference curve and important insights into economic equilibrium, whilst he also made contributions to the earliest developments in mathematical statistics.
