Jean-Paul Benzécri
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Jean-Paul Benzécri is a French
statistician
. He studied at École Normale Supérieure
and has been professor at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris
. He is most famous for the development of the Correspondence analysis
, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency table
s. It is widely used in sociological studies of categorical data.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
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...
. He studied at École Normale Supérieure
École Normale Supérieure
The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...
and has been professor at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. He is most famous for the development of the Correspondence analysis
Correspondence analysis
Correspondence analysis is a multivariate statistical technique proposed by Hirschfeld and later developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri. It is conceptually similar to principal component analysis, but applies to categorical rather than continuous data...
, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency table
Contingency table
In statistics, a contingency table is a type of table in a matrix format that displays the frequency distribution of the variables...
s. It is widely used in sociological studies of categorical data.