# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-paul-benzecri
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:55:03.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-paul-benzecri"
name: "Jean-Paul Benzécri"
slug: "jean-paul-benzecri"
description: "Jean-Paul Benzécri was a French mathematician and statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and was professor at Université de Rennes and later for most of his career at the Paris Institute of Statistics, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris. He is most known for his specific inductive approach to data analysis which led to the creation of Correspondence analysis, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency tables and for the invention of the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering."
tagline: "French mathematician (1932-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Paul_Benzecri_SDLS_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-02-28"
deathDate: "2019-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump