Hirotsugu Akaike

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Hirotsugu Akaike (赤池 弘次, Akaike Hirotsugu^?, In academic publications Hirotugu without an 'S') (born November 5, 1927) is a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has become known as the Akaike information criterion.

Contents 1 Awards 2 Publications 3 Interview 4 External links

[edit] Awards

In 2006 Akaike was awarded the Kyoto Prize for his major contribution to statistical science and modeling in the development of the "Akaike Information Criterion" (AIC).

[edit] Publications

• Akaike, Hirotugu (December 1974). "A new look at the statistical model identification". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 19 (6): 716–723. doi:10.1109/TAC.1974.1100705. 
• Selected papers of Hirotugu Akaike (edited by Emanuel Parzen, Kunio Tanabe, Genshiro Kitagawa), New York: Springer, 1998. ISBN 0-387-98355-4.
• Hirotugu Akaike and Toichiro Nakagawa (1988), Statistical analysis and control of dynamic systems, Tokyo, Dordrecht: KTK Scientific; London: Kluwer. ISBN 90-277-2786-4. (Translation of 1972 book in Japanese.)

[edit] Interview

• Findley, David F.; Emanuel Parzen (February 1995). "A conversation with Hirotugu Akaike". Statistical Science 10 (1): 104–117. doi:10.1214/ss/1177010133. 

[edit] External links

• Homepage of Emeritus Professor Hirotugu Akaike;
• 8th Director-General of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo;
• Remarks on writing the 1974 paper;
• Kyoto Prize Citation;