# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-hotelling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:48.994Z

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name: "Harold Hotelling"
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description: "Harold Hotelling was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science."
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birthDate: "1895-09-29"
deathDate: "1973-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump