Pierre Perron (born March 14, 1959) is a Canadian
econometrician
Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...
at
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...
. Perron is known for the
Phillips–Perron test
In statistics, the Phillips–Perron test (named after Peter C. B. Phillips and Pierre Perron) is a unit root test. That is, it is used in time series analysis to test the null hypothesis that a time series is integrated of order 1. It builds ...
of a
unit root
In probability theory and statistics, a unit root is a feature of some stochastic processes (such as random walks) that can cause problems in statistical inference involving time series models. A linear stochastic process has a unit root if 1 is ...
in time series regression,
which was the result of his Ph.D. studies under
Peter C. B. Phillips.
References
External links
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Website at Boston University
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1959 births
Living people
Canadian statisticians
Yale University alumni
Boston University faculty
Fellows of the Econometric Society