Talk:Stylized fact

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BetacommandBot 11:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merge
The term 'stylized fact' is used for many major statistical regularities in economics. Kaldor's facts are a prominent early example, but they are far from the only ones. So it might be OK to merge 'Kaldor's facts' into the 'Stylized facts' page, but it is definitely wrong to merge 'Stylized facts' into the 'Kaldor's facts' page. Better yet, I would suggest keeping them separate. --Rinconsoleao (talk) 08:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * support the no merge view. Jackzhp (talk) 23:27, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree. "Stylized facts" are an important general concept in economic methodology. Kaldor was the first one to coin the term, but one can find "stylized facts" in many areas of economics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.28.78.11 (talk) 16:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed – one article for the historical ones, one for the general concept.
 * I’ve split out the Kaldor details to the Kaldor page, and included some other examples in an “Examples” section, and cross-referenced the pages, which I believe addresses all concerns, so I’ve also removed the {merge} template.
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 11:01, 2 July 2009 (UTC)