Discussion at Minneapolis, Minn., April 3, 1903

DepArtment of Economics University of MinnesotA MinneApolis , Minn 55455

We prove that the Strong Axiom of Revealed Preference tests the existence of a strictly quasiconcave (in fact, continuous, generically Coo, strictly concave, and strictly monotone) utility function generating finitely many demand observations. This sharpens earlier results of Afriat, Diewert, and Varian that tested ("nonparametrically") the existence of a piecewise linear utility function that ...

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Lecture 3 — April 3 , 2017

Where did we lose in this argument? First, whenever you do a union bound, you’re overestimating the probability of the bad event. In particular, this can be a gross overestimate if many labelings are similar to each other, because then if the random swapping of one pair is unlikely to cause harm, then swapping another close one is unlikely to cause harm. Next lecture, we will find a way to get ...

The Antibodies in Disease 1Read at a Meeting of the South-Western Branch of the British Medical Association at Exeter, April 1st, 1903.

your indulgence for the multiplicity of names given to the same bodies, which I will limit as far as possible. As the subject is of growing importance to the practice of medicine and the treatment and the understanding of disease processes, it is of interest, I think, to us all. Its origin in the work of Jenner, Hunter, and Pasteur is now a part of medical history. Twelve years ago immunity was...

Assimilation techniques ( 3 ) : 3 dVar April 2001