Hirotsugu Akaike

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Hirotsugu Akaike ( Japanese 赤 池 弘 次 , Akaike Hirotsugu , also Hirotugu according to the Kunrei system ; born November 5, 1927 in Shizuoka Prefecture ; † August 4, 2009 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) was a Japanese statistician.

Life

Akaike graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1945 and from Tokyo First High School (a forerunner of the University of Tokyo) in 1948 . He then studied at the University of Tokyo , which he graduated in 1952, and then carried out research at the Institute for Statistical Mathematics, of which he was director in 1986 until his retirement in 1994. In 1961 he received his doctorate (D. Sc.) From the University of Tokyo.

Akaike is known for the named after him information criterion of statistical models to select ( "Akaike Information Criterion", AIC).

Awards

Akaike received the following awards:

He was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1981), the Royal Statistical Society (1983), the IEEE, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1989).

He received posthumously the “4th real court rank ”( 正 四位 , shōshii ).

Fonts

  • Emanuel Parzen, Kunio Tanabe, Genshiro Kitagawa (editors): Selected Papers of Hirotugu Akaike, Springer Verlag 1998
  • with Toichiro Nakagawa: Statistical analysis and control of dynamical systems, Kluwer 1988 (first Japanese 1972)
  • A new look at the statistical model identification , IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 19, 1974, pp. 716-723 (AIC)
  • Likelihood and the Bayes procedure , in JM Bernardo et al. a. Bayesian Statistics , Valencia: University Press, 1980, pp. 143-166
  • Likelihood of a model and information criteria, Journal of Econometrics, Volume 16, 1981, pp. 3-14

Individual evidence

  1. Hirotugu Akaike Memorial website. Retrieved May 5, 2013 .

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