Cobb–Douglas production function

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The Cobb-Douglas functional form of production functions in economics is widely used to represent the relationship of an output to inputs.

The form is estimated as a linear relationship using the following expression:

ln(O)=a0+?ai*ln(Ii)

nice notation here would be useful

It was developed Paul Douglas and Richard Cobb.

It has been generalized in the translog functional form.