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Alma mater. University of California, Berkeley. Doctoral. advisor. William Fellner. R. Aaron Gordon. Robert Dorfman (27 October 1916 – 24 June 2002) was professor of political economy at Harvard University. Dorfman made great contributions to the fields of economics, statistics, group testing and in the process of coding theory. [1]
Dorfman’s career at Harvard spanned 32 years. He was Professor of Economics from 1955 to 1972, and then David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy until his retirement in 1987. He was known by junior colleagues as a marvelous mentor. Henry Rosovsky once said that the kindest five words that can be said to a young scholar are, “I have ...
Robert Dorfman, the late David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was a leader in the introduction of mathematical methods to economics in the twentieth century. He died on June 24, 2002, at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts. Dorfman made important contributions, particularly as a pioneer in the use of linear programming,
Details. This function finds the characteristics of an informative two-stage hierarchical (Dorfman) decoding process. Characteristics found include the expected expenditure of the decoding process, the variance of the expenditure of the decoding process, and the pooling sensitivity, pooling specificity, pooling positive predictive value, and pooling negative predictive value for each individual.
Context Rosai-Dorfman disease is an uncommon histiocytic disorder most frequently presenting as bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy in children and young adults. Extranodal disease occurs in a significant proportion of patients. It has been recently classified as part of the ‘R group’ of histiocytoses by the Histiocyte Society in 2016. Cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease is regarded as a ...
- Cassandra Bruce-Brand, Johann W Schneider, Pawel Schubert
- 2020
Jun 24, 2002 · Dorfman R. (1996) Why Benefit-Cost Analysis is Widely Disregarded and What to Do About it. Interfaces , 26(5): 1-6. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
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3. I would like to define an authorship of a delta method, which I need to make a proper reference in my work. As far as I know, the earliest record is dated back to 1936 when Robert Dorfman has published his A Note on the δ-Method for Finding Variance Formulae in The Biometric Bulletin, 1, 129–137 (I have not found this article by myself ...
