Guy H. Orcutt | |
Birth Date: | 5 July 1917 |
Birth Place: | Wyandotte, Michigan |
Death Place: | Bowie, Maryland |
Nationality: | American |
Field: | Econometrics |
Alma Mater: | University of Michigan |
Doctoral Advisor: | Arthur Smithies |
Doctoral Students: | Edwin Kuh John R. Meyer Alice Rivlin |
Children: | Alice Nakamura Harriet Orcutt Duleep |
Known For: | Cochrane–Orcutt estimation |
Guy Henderson Orcutt (July 5, 1917 – March 5, 2006) was an American econometrician. He was a long-time faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[1] and is known for developing the Cochrane–Orcutt estimation procedure.
A native of Michigan, Orcutt earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degree from the University of Michigan.[2]
In 1959 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3]