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Luke Stein Stanford graduate economics core (2006–7) Reference and review (last updated September 29, 2009) Contents 1 Econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Probability foundations . . . . . . . . Basic set theory Disjointness Partition Sigma algebra Probability function Probability space Counting Conditional probability Bayes’ Rule Independence of events Mutual independence of events Random variables . . . . . . . . . . . Random variable Random vector Measurability Smallest σ-field Independence

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teachers With due respect for the faculty, I kindly quote from Dr. Benjamin Rush, the famous Philadelphia teacher of medical practice. He declared that "it is impossible to calculate the mischief PAGE 163 1 3 which Hippocrates has done, by first marking Nature with his name, and afterward letting her loose upon sick people." Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, Professor in Harvard University, declared himself "sick of learned quackery." 6 Dr. James Johnson, Surgeon to William IV, King Of England,

opportunely with the latest fashionable theory of temporary insanity, which in our time they so often try to apply to certain criminals. Furthermore, Raskolnikov's long-standing hypochondriac state of mind was attested to with precision by many witnesses, by Dr. Zossimov, former friends, the landlady, the maid. All this contributed greatly to the conclusion that Raskolnikov was not quite like the ordinary murderer, outlaw, and robber, but that something else was involved. To the great annoyance of those who

mobility of the population and volumes of spiritual reflection (like the Tibetan meditations of Lobsang Rampa) echoing the moral unease of de Gaulle’s materialistic France. Selfhelp books and popular science widened their market share. From abroad came Dr Spock’s philosophy of child-rearing and Desmond Morris’s behaviourist account of Le Singe nu (1967). But history, memoirs and biography also grew in popularity. New volumes of Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiography, like Sartre’s Les Mots (1964) and, to

envoya un exemplaire de cet ouvrage à l’éditeur de la Revue archéologique. Je rendis compte dans cette revue des Otia AEgyptiaca de M. Gliddon, en même temps que du Magasin ethnologique (Ethnological Magazine) que venait de fonder dans cette ville Luke Burke. Gliddon étant venu à Paris s’empressa de me remercier ; son caractère ouvert, sans façons et original m’attira. M. Gliddon parlait français avec une grande facilité ; il avait de l’humour, mais un humour fortement américanisé (...) C’était l’époque