Hirotugu Akaike

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

Akaike made ​​in 1945 graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy and in 1948 the first high school in Tokyo ( a predecessor of the University of Tokyo ). He then studied at the University of Tokyo, from which he graduated in 1952 and then a researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, whose director he was in 1986 until his retirement in 1994. In 1961 he was at the University of Tokyo doctorate (D. Sc.).

Akaike is known for the eponymous information criterion for selecting statistical models ( " 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 was posthumously awarded the " fourth real court rank " (正 四位, shōshii ).

Writings

  • Emanuel Parzen, Kunio Tanabe, Genshiro Kitagawa (Editor ): Selected Papers of Hirotugu Akaike, Springer Verlag 1998
  • With Toichiro Nakagawa: Statistical analysis and control of dynamical systems, Kluwer, 1988 ( first Japanese 1972)
  • Likelihood and the Bayes procedure, in JM Bernardo, inter alia, Bayesian Statistics, Valencia: University Press, 1980, pp. 143-166
  • Likelihood of a model and information criteria, Journal of Econometrics, Volume 16, 1981, p 3-14
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