When did we begin to spell Òheteros*edasticityÓ correctly?

Alfredo Paloyo

Philippine Review of Economics, 2014, vol. 51, issue 1, 162-178

Abstract: Using digitized texts scanned by Google and subjected to opticalÊcharacter recognition, I show that heteroskedasticity overtookÊheteroscedasticity as the preferred spelling in 2001 and hasÊcontinued to dominate, except for 2005, up to 2008. The latestÊtrends indicate that writers are moving toward the k variant.ÊHowever, for words such as homoskedasticity, heteroskedastic,Êand homoskedastic, the corresponding spellings using c are stillÊoverwhelmingly dominant, albeit slowly shifting.

Keywords: culturomics; econometric orthography; Google Books; heteroskedasticity; philology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A20 B19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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