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Clive Granger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (460 words) |
 | Professor Sir Clive William John Granger (born September 4, 1934) is a Welsh-born economist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, USA. |
| In 2005, the building that houses the Economics and Geography Departments at the University of Nottingham was renamed the Sir Clive Granger Building in honour of his Nobel achievement. |
| Clive Granger also developed a formal statistical notion of causality based on which variables help to predict other variables. |
| Professor Clive Granger (535 words) |
| Clive Granger was born in Swansea, but completed his high school education at West Bridgford Grammar School, some 12 miles north of Loughborough on the southern outskirts of Nottingham. |
| On graduating in 1955, Clive stayed on at Nottingham, becoming a lecturer in statistics in the Mathematics Department in 1956, publishing his first academic paper, ‘A statistical model for sunspot activity’, in the Astrophysical Journal in 1957, and obtaining a Ph.D. in statistics in 1959. |
| Clive eventually returned in 1974 to a professorship in the Economics Department at the University of California at San Diego, where he has remained and has been instrumental in building up the econometrics section to become one of the finest in the world. |
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