Harold Hotelling
American statistician and econometrician (1895–1973)
Harold Hotelling (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. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Harold Hotelling (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Sep 29, 1895, died Dec 26, 1973.1
About
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.
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Companies
- Econometric SocietyFounder16
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: economist, political economist, university teacher, statistician, mathematician.7
- 1946 to 1966Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill4
- 1941President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics6
- 1936 to 1937Chairperson, Econometric Society6
- 1931 to 1946Worked at Columbia University4
- 1924 to 1931Worked at Stanford University4
- 1919 to 1920Worked at The Washington Standard4
- 1915 to 1916Worked at Puyallup Herald4
- Date not recordedFounded Econometric Society5
Known for: Hotelling's rule, Hotelling's lemma, Hotelling's law, Working–Hotelling procedure, Hotelling's T-squared distribution.8
Personal life
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