Robert Basmann

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Robert L. Basmann
Born (1926-01-15) January 15, 1926 (age 98)
Academic career
InstitutionTexas A&M University
FieldEconometrics
Alma materIowa State University
InfluencesGerhard Tintner
ContributionsTwo stage least squares

Robert Leon Basmann (born January 15, 1926) is an American econometrician.[1]

Biography[edit]

He was a professor of Econometrics at Texas A&M University until his retirement. He served as a lecturer at Binghamton University after his retirement. As of at least as recently as 2019, Basmann was still listed on Binghamton Universities listing of emeritus professors.[2]

Basmann held academic appointments at Northwestern University, University of Chicago and Purdue University prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M.

Basmann earned a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University in 1955.[3][4] He is credited, along with Henri Theil, for deriving two stage least squares estimation.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Iowa, County Births". Family Search. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ Binghamton list of emeritus professors
  3. ^ "Fifty-Third List of Doctoral Dissertations in Political Economy in Progress in American Universities and Colleges". The American Economic Review. 46 (4): 804–833. 1956. JSTOR 1814347.
  4. ^ Basmann, Robert L. (1955). Application of several econometric techniques to a theory of demand with variable tastes (Thesis). Iowa State University. doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-14352.
  5. ^ Qin, Duo (1993). The Formation of Econometrics: A Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-0-19-828388-1.

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