Nationality French Fields Mathematics | Name Jean-Paul Benzecri | |
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Institutions Universite Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Alma mater Ecole Normale Superieure Doctoral students Pierre CazesMichael GreenacreMichaelis MeimarisJean-Marie MongetFionn MurtaghPierre TeillardYosu Yurramendi | ||
Jean-Paul Benzécri is a French statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and has been professor at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris. He is most famous for the development of the Correspondence analysis, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency tables. It is widely used in sociological studies of categorical data. Benzécri is also one of the inventors of the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.
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