Hirotugu Akaike

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 for the foundations of statistics.

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Who was born first?

• Hirotugu Akaike and Martin Lewis Perl were born the same year
• Hirotugu Akaike and Marshall Warren Nirenberg were born the same year
• Hirotugu Akaike and Alan MacDiarmid were born the same year
• Hirotugu Akaike and F. Sherwood Rowland were born the same year
• Hirotugu Akaike and Karl Alexander Müller were born the same year

Timeline

1. Alan MacDiarmidApril 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007
2. F. Sherwood RowlandJune 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012
3. Hirotugu Akaike (this page)November 5, 1927 – August 4, 2009
4. Karl Alexander MüllerApril 20, 1927 – January 9, 2023
5. Marshall Warren NirenbergApril 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010
6. Martin Lewis PerlJune 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014

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