Jean-Paul Benzécri
French mathematician and statistician (1932–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 (l'Institut de Statistique de l'Université de Paris), 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.
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Jean-Paul Benzécri | |
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Born | (1932-02-28)28 February 1932 Oran, Algeria |
Died | 24 November 2019(2019-11-24) (aged 87) Villampuy, France |
Nationality | French |
Education | École Normale Supérieure Sorbonne University |
Known for | Correspondence Analysis |
Spouse |
Françoise Leroy (m. 1956) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Sur les variétés localement affines et localement projectives (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Henri Cartan |
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