# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-summers
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:36:28.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-summers"
name: "Robert Summers"
slug: "robert-summers"
description: "Robert Summers was an American economist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1960. A widely cited early work by Summers is on the small-sample statistical properties of alternate regression estimators where analytical measures are unavailable."
tagline: "American economist"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-06-22"
deathDate: "2012-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Summers_(economist)"
    title: "Robert Summers (economist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7350148"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations