Jean-Paul Benzécri

Jean-Paul Benzécri
Born 1932
Nationality French
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Doctoral advisor Henri Cartan

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.

References

  • Histoire et préhistoire de l'analyse des données, Dunod, 1982, ISBN 2-04-015467-1
  • L'analyse des données / leçons sur l'analyse factorielle et la reconnaissance des formes et travaux, Dunod 1982, ISBN 2-04-015515-5
  • Linguistique et lexicologie, Dunod, 2007 [ré-édition], ISBN 2-04-010776-2
  • Pratique de l'analyse des données, Dunod, 1980, ISBN 2-04-015732-8
  • Revue Les cahiers de l'analyse des données, Gauthier-Villars, Dunod, 1980-1990


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