Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (died 2009)

Hirotugu Akaike

Japanese statistician

Hirotugu Akaike 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…