Clarence T. Hurst, 1895—1949

Clarence Henry Graham.

Clarence Cook Little.

The Voting Behavior of Clarence

A. The tables and figures that follow rely on the U.S. Supreme Court Database's definitions of “conservative” and “liberal.” The definitions mostly comport with conventional understandings. “Liberal” votes are those in favor of defendants in criminal cases; of women and minorities in civil rights cases; of individuals against the government in First Amendment, privacy, and due process cases; of...

Clarence Thomas and Administrative Law

Estimating the Hurst Exponent

The Hurst Exponent is a dimensionless estimator for the self-similarity of a time series. Initially defined by Harold Edwin Hurst to develop a law for regularities of the Nile water level, it now has applications in medicine and finance. Meaningful values are in the range [0, 1]. Different methods for estimating the Hurst Exponent have been evaluated: The classical “Rescaled Range” method devel...