Max O. Lorenz
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Max Otto Lorenz (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; September 19, 1876 – July 1, 1959) was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in an undergraduate essay.<ref>Gerber, L. (2007). A quintile rule for the Gini coefficient. Mathematics Magazine, 80(2), 133-135.</ref> He published a paper on this when he was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His doctoral thesis (1906) was on 'The Economic Theory of Railroad Rates' and made no reference to perhaps his most famous paper. The term "Lorenz curve" for the measure Lorenz invented was coined by Willford I. King in 1912.
He was of German ancestry, his father having been born in Essen in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1841.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
He was active in both publishing and teaching and was at various times employed by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Railway Economics, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics and the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1917 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.<ref>List of ASA Fellows Template:Webarchive, retrieved 2016-07-16.</ref>
He was married to Nellie, and fathered three sons.
External links
- Lorenz, M. O. (1905). Methods of measuring the concentration of wealth Publications of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 9 (New Series, No. 70) 209–219.Template:Doi
- Richard T. Ely, Adams, Thomas A. Adams, Max O. Lorenz, and Allyn Young (1908). Outlines of Economics. New York: Macmillan.
- King, W.I. (1912). The Elements of Statistical Method. New York: Macmillan.
- A discussion of generalised Lorenz curves: [1]
- Some history of economists from the University of Wisconsin–Madison school around John R. Commons: [2]
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