Hirotugu Akaike, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hirotugu Akaike

statistician

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1927

Place of Birth: Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 04-Aug-2009

Profession: mathematician, statistician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Hirotugu Akaike (?? ?? Akaike Hirotsugu; IPA: [akaike çi?ots?g?]) (November 5, 1927 – August 4, 2009) was a Japanese statistician.
In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion (AIC).
AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of statistical inference; additionally, AIC is the basis of a paradigm for the foundations of statistics.
Akaike also made major contributions to the study of time series.
As well, he had a large role in the general development of statistics in Japan.