Teira Serrano, David2024-05-212024-05-212008-05-15https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/19454In this paper I study Milton Friedman’s statistical education, paying special attention to the different methodological approaches (Fisher, Neyman and Savage) to which he was exposed. I contend that these statistical procedures involved different views as to the evaluation of statistical predictions. In this light, the thesis defended in Friedman’s 1953 methodological essay appears substantially ungrounded.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMilton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologistjournal articleMilton FriedmanPrediction in economics