(November 5, 1927 – August 4, 2009) was a Japan

Japan

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ese statistician

Statistician

A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has become known as the Akaike information criterion

Akaike information criterion

The Akaike information criterion is a measure of the relative goodness of fit of a statistical model. It was developed by Hirotsugu Akaike, under the name of "an information criterion" , and was first published by Akaike in 1974...

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Awards

In 2006 Akaike was awarded the Kyoto Prize

Kyoto Prize

The has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology...

 for his major contribution to statistical science and modeling in the development of the Akaike Information Criterion

Akaike information criterion

The Akaike information criterion is a measure of the relative goodness of fit of a statistical model. It was developed by Hirotsugu Akaike, under the name of "an information criterion" , and was first published by Akaike in 1974...

 (AIC).

Publications (selected)

• Akaike, H. (1976). Canonical correlation analysis of time series and the use of an information criterion. R.K. Mehra, and D.G. Lainiotis (eds.) System Identification: Advances and Case Studies, 27–96. Academic Press, New York, NY.
• Akaike, H. (1977). On entropy maximization principle. P.R. Krishnaiah (ed.) Applications of statistics, 27–41. North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Akaike, H. (1978). A new look at the Bayes procedure. Biometrika
  Biometrika
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  65, 53–59.
• Akaike, H. (1978). A Bayesian analysis of the minimum AIC procedure. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 30, 9–14.
• Akaike, H. (1978). On the likelihood of a time series model. The Statistician 27, 217–235.
• Akaike, H. (1979). A Bayesian extension of the minimum AIC procedure of autoregressive model fitting. Biometrika 66, 237–242.
• Akaike, H. (1980). Likelihood and the Bayes procedure (with discussion). J.M. Bernardo, M.H. De Groot, D.V. Lindley, and A.F.M. Smith (eds.) Bayesian Statistics, 143–203. University Press, Valencia, Spain.
• Akaike, H. (1981). Likelihood of a model and information criteria. Journal of Econometrics 16, 3–14.
• Akaike, H. (1981). Modern development of statistical methods. P. Eykhoff (ed.) Trends and Progress in System Identification, 169–184. Pergamon Press, Paris.
• Akaike, H. (1983). Statistical inference and measurement of entropy. G.E.P. Box, T. Leonard, and C-F. Wu (eds.) Scientific Inference, Data Analysis, and Robustness, 165–189. Academic Press, London.
• Akaike, H. (1983). Information measures and model selection. International Statistical Institute 44, 277–291.
• Akaike, H. (1983). On minimum information prior distributions. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 35A, 139–149.
• Akaike, H. (1985). Prediction and entropy. A.C. Atkinson, and S.E. Fienberg (eds.) A Celebration of Statistics, 1–24. Springer, New York, NY.
• Akaike, H. (1987). Factor analysis and AIC. Psychometrika 52, 317–332.
• Akaike, H. (1992). Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. S. Kotz, and N.L. Johnson (eds.) Breakthroughs in Statistics, Vol.1: 610–624. Springer-Verlag, London.

• 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.)
• Selected papers of Hirotugu Akaike (edited by Emanuel Parzen, Kunio Tanabe, Genshiro Kitagawa), New York: Springer, 1998. ISBN 0-387-98355-4.

External links

• Hirotugu Akaike Memorial Website at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
  Institute of Statistical Mathematics
  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics is Japan's national research institute for statistical science. In October 2009, it relocated from the Azabu district of Tokyo to Tachikawa city...
  
  
• 8th Director-General of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
  Institute of Statistical Mathematics
  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics is Japan's national research institute for statistical science. In October 2009, it relocated from the Azabu district of Tokyo to Tachikawa city...
  
  in Tokyo
• Remarks on writing the 1974 paper
• Kyoto Prize Citation
• Obituary: Professor Hirotugu Akaike