Two distinguished New Zealanders pioneered some of the foundations of modern econometrics. Alec Aitken, one of the most … decades before their use in economics), and statistical estimation theory leading to the Cramér Rao bound. Rex Bergstrom … 1950s, opened up the field of exact distribution theory, developed cyclical growth models in economic theory, and spent …

This paper provides a tribute to Edmond Malinvaud's contributions to econometrics. We overview the primary original … contributions in Edmond Malinvaud's masterful work The Statistical Methods of Econometrics. This advanced text developed a complete … treatment of linear estimation theory using geometric methods and, for the first time, provided rigorous nonlinear regression …