Hirotsugu Akaike

nihongo|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.

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).

Publications

*cite journal
first = Hirotugu
last = Akaike
authorlink =
year = 1974
month = December
title = A new look at the statistical model identification
journal = IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
volume = 19
issue = 6
pages = 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.)

Interview

*cite journal
first = David F.
last = Findley
coauthors = Emanuel Parzen
year = 1995
month = February
title = A conversation with Hirotugu Akaike
journal = Statistical Science
volume = 10
issue = 1
pages = 104–117
doi = 10.1214/ss/1177010133

External links

* [http://tswww.ism.ac.jp/kitagawa/HomePage/akaike.html Homepage of Emeritus Professor Hirotugu Akaike] ;
* [http://www.ism.ac.jp/history/Japanese/HTMLs/Outlines/Chiefes/08th.html 8th Director-General] of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo;
* [http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1981/A1981MS54100001.pdf Remarks on writing the 1974 paper] ;
* [http://www.kyotoprize.org/citation_akaike.htm Kyoto Prize Citation] ;