Guy Orcutt
{{Short description|American econometrician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Guy H. Orcutt
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|7|5}}
| birth_place = Wyandotte, Michigan
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|3|5|1917|7|5|mf=y}}
| death_place = Bowie, Maryland
| nationality = American
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| field = Econometrics
| alma_mater = University of Michigan
| doctoral_advisor = Arthur Smithies
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| doctoral_students= Edwin Kuh
John R. Meyer
Alice Rivlin
| notable_students =
| children = Alice Nakamura
Harriet Orcutt Duleep
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| known_for = Cochrane–Orcutt estimation
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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,{{cite book |last1=Cronon |first1=E. David |last2=Jenkins |first2=John W. |title=University of Wisconsin: Renewal to Revolution, 1945–1971 |location=Madison |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-299-16290-0 |pages=285–86 }} 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.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1257/jep.5.1.171| title = Distinguished Fellow: An Appreciation of Guy Orcutt| journal = Journal of Economic Perspectives| volume = 5| pages = 171–179| year = 1991| last1 = Watts | first1 = H. W. | issue = 1| doi-access = free}}
In 1959 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |date=2016-06-16 }}, accessed 2016-07-23.
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Category:20th-century American economists
Category:Distinguished fellows of the American Economic Association
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society
Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:Time series econometricians
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
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