Harold Hotelling
American statistician and econometrician (1895-1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harold Hotelling (/ˈhoʊtəlɪŋ/; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) 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.[1] He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science.
Harold Hotelling | |
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Born | (1895-09-29)September 29, 1895 Fulda, Minnesota, U.S. |
Died | December 26, 1973(1973-12-26) (aged 78) |
Alma mater | Princeton University PhD 1924 University of Washington BA 1919, MA 1921 |
Known for | Hotelling's T-square distribution Canonical correlation analysis Hotelling's law Hotelling's lemma Hotelling's rule Hotelling's location model Working–Hotelling procedure |
Awards | North Carolina Award 1972 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics Economics |
Institutions | Univ. of North Carolina 1946–1973 Columbia University 1931–1946 Stanford University 1927–31 |
Doctoral advisor | Oswald Veblen |
Doctoral students | Kenneth Arrow Seymour Geisser Ralph A. Bradley |
He was associate professor of mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 until his death. A street in Chapel Hill bears his name. In 1972, he received the North Carolina Award for contributions to science.