1st Annual Research Conference
on Mathematical Statistics and Economics

Summer 1935*

"Generalized Multiple Correlation for Pairs of Sets of Economic Variates"
Harold Hotelling, Columbia University

"Multiple Correlation Analysis of Intercorrelated Variates"
Alfred Cowles 3rd, Cowles Commission

"Lag Analysis with Special Reference to the Building Industry"

Charles F. Roos, Cowles Commission

"The Statistical Validity of Harmonic Analysis"
Harold T. Davis, Cowles Commission and Indiana University

"The Mathematical Theory of Index Numbers"
Thomas H. Rawles, then of Yale University, now of Colorado College

"The Location and Development of Economic Areas"
August Loesch, University of Bonn, Germany

"Business Cycles and Population Waves"
August Loesch, University of Bonn, Germany

"The Economics of Overhead Costs with Applications to Pumping"
Herbert E. Jones, hydraulic engineer and statistician, now of the Cowles Commission

*The Cowles Commission Research Conferences originated in a series of informal sessions during the summer of 1935 after the meeting of the Econometric Society at Colorado Springs on June 22–24 of that year. At these gatherings various papers were presented and discussed by economists who remained in the vicinity. The meetings were so successful that it was decided to continue them in subsequent years. The scope of the Conferences has grown steadily. In 1935, the first year, there were 8 papers presented by 7 different lecturers, the total number attending being 25 of whom 5 were from out-of-town.