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James B. McDonald

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Publications

71

Citations

4.3K

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33

Active since

1972

Affiliations

Brigham Young University(Current)

Princeton University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Utah State University

James B. McDonald is an author at Brigham Young University specializing in statistics, business, and engineering.

Top concepts

StatisticsBusinessEngineeringEconometricsEconomicsFinanceEconomic AnalysisStatistical InferenceEstimation TheoryManagement

Publications per year

1972–2019

71

Publications

71

Some Generalized Functions for the Size Distribution of Income

James B. McDonald · Econometrica · 1984 · 568 citations

Economics, Business, Economic Analysis +7

A generalization of the beta distribution with applications

James B. McDonald, Yexiao Xu · Journal of Econometrics · 1995 · 552 citations

Beta Distribution, Statistical Inference, Statistics +1

Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models via the Generalized <i>T</i> Distribution

James B. McDonald, Whitney K. Newey · Econometric Theory · 1988 · 278 citations

Generalized T, Regression Models, Economics +11

A General Distribution for Describing Security Price Returns

Richard Bookstaber, James B. McDonald · The Journal of Business · 1987 · 172 citations

Large Deviations, Engineering, Mathematical Statistic +18

Functional Forms, Estimation Techniques and the Distribution of Income

James B. McDonald, Michael R. Ransom · Econometrica · 1979 · 134 citations

Economics, Business, Econometrics +6

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