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Subject: origin of Mills in Mills' ratio
Category: Science
Asked by: millsratio-ga
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Posted: 13 Jun 2005 05:08 PDT
Expires: 13 Jul 2005 05:08 PDT
Question ID: 532736

Which "Mills" (person?) does the term "Mills' ratio" popular in selection models
in social sciences refer to?

Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 13 Jun 2005 06:54 PDT

Hi millsratio,

Please let me know if this answers your question:

"...And yet another series of four papers were on Mills's ratio (the
reciprocal of the hazard rate or failure rate) used in approximating
the tail of a distribution and named after J. F. Mills [Biometrika, 18
(1926), 395-400]."

http://www.cbs.nl/isi/NLet021-03.htm

Best regards,
Rainbow

Clarification of Question by millsratio-ga on 13 Jun 2005 08:06 PDT
Yes, thanks!!

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Subject: Re: origin of Mills in Mills' ratio
Answered By: rainbow-ga on 13 Jun 2005 08:24 PDT
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Hi millsratio,

I'm glad I was able to help.

Best wishes,
Rainbow

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Subject: Re: origin of Mills in Mills' ratio
From: rainbow-ga on 13 Jun 2005 10:52 PDT

Thanks you for the rating and tip.
Best wishes,
Rainbow

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