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Harold Hotelling
American statistician and econometrician (1895-1973) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 78
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.
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1973Died26 December 19731972North Carolina Award for ScienceAward1965Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic AssociationAward1937Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward1935Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1933Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1895Born29 September 1895
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He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science.
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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1895 to 1973 · aged 78
