econometriciann.
/ᵻˌkɒnəməˈtrɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌkɑnəməˈtrɪʃ(ə)n/ Economics.
A specialist or expert in econometrics.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > branches or models of > one who studies or writes about
classical economist1871
agro-economist1930
econometrician1931
econometrist1934
neo-Keynesian1947
micro-economist1949
macro-economist1964
1931 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 26 226 Some work should be started shortly by econometricians in rationalizing the legal, economic and mathematical theories of risk.
1956 R. F. Harrod in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 490 It was the ambition of the econometricians..to formulate economic laws in terms which could be statistically verified.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Aug. 14/1 Some econometricians pretend to predict national elections to within a tenth of a percentage point using selected economic data and poll numbers in the six months preceding election day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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