When Did We Begin to Spell “Heteros*edasticity” Correctly?
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Using digitized texts scanned by Google and subjected to optical character recognition, I show that heteroskedasticity overtook heteroscedasticity as the preferred spelling in 2001 and has continued to dominate, except for 2005, up to 2008. The latest trends indicate that writers are moving toward the k variant. However, for words such as homoskedasticity, heteroskedastic, and homoskedastic, the corresponding spellings using c are still overwhelmingly dominant, albeit slowly shifting.Download Info
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Paper provided by Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Dortmund, Universität Duisburg-Essen in its series Ruhr Economic Papers with number 0300.Length: 24 pages
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Keywords: Heteroskedasticity; Culturomics; Google Books; econometric orthography; philology;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General
- B19 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Other
- B29 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Other
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- NEP-ALL-2012-01-03 (All new papers)
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- Hausman, Jerry A. & Ruud, Paul A., 1987. "Specifying and testing econometric models for rank-ordered data," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 34(1-2), pages 83-104.
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