American statistician and econometrician (1895-1973)
Harold Hotelling
Born
(1895-09-29)September 29, 1895
Fulda, Minnesota, U.S.
Died
December 26, 1973(1973-12-26) (aged 78)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater
University of Washington (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD)
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
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.
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.
^Dodge, Y. (2008). The concise encyclopedia of statistics, Springer
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economics, Vickrey extended the Georgist marginal cost pricing approach of HaroldHotelling and showed how public goods should be provided at marginal cost and...
members were Ragnar Frisch, Charles F. Roos, Joseph A. Schumpeter, HaroldHotelling, Henry Schultz, Karl Menger, Edwin B. Wilson, Frederick C. Mills, William...
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than moderation. A related assertion was made earlier (in 1929) by HaroldHotelling, who argued that politicians in a representative democracy would converge...
surmised that Lerner obtained his results independently of Pareto's work. Hotelling put forward a new argument to show that 'sales at marginal costs are a...
price facility. The technique was first suggested by the statistician HaroldHotelling in a 1947 letter to the director of the National Park Service of the...
University in 1932 and studied in the graduate school at Columbia under HaroldHotelling from 1934 to 1937. From 1937 to 1946 he worked at various bureaus in...
between two sets of variables." The method was first introduced by HaroldHotelling in 1936, although in the context of angles between flats the mathematical...
role of a department of statistics is discussed in a 1949 article by HaroldHotelling, which helped to spur the creation of many departments of statistics...
articles on the teaching of statistics by non-statisticians by HaroldHotelling; Hotelling's articles are followed by the comments of Kenneth J. Arrow, W...
Machine Hotelling, Harold (1990). "Stability in Competition". In Darnell, Adrian C. (ed.). The Collected Economics Articles of HaroldHotelling. Springer...
theorem in mechanics; it was later independently developed and named by HaroldHotelling in the 1930s. Depending on the field of application, it is also named...
degree in mathematics in June 1941. At Columbia, Arrow studied under HaroldHotelling, who influenced him to switch fields to economics. He served as a weather...
2006) was a prominent American survey statistician. He studied under HaroldHotelling, receiving a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936, and...
University, where he studied statistics with statistician and economist HaroldHotelling. He was back in Chicago for the 1934–1935 academic year, working as...
Ottmar Edenhofer Fred Foldvary Milton Friedman Mason Gaffney Max Hirsch HaroldHotelling Wolf Ladejinsky Donald Shoup Herbert A. Simon Robert Solow Joseph Stiglitz...
estimate or test. This example of design experiments is attributed to HaroldHotelling, building on examples from Frank Yates. The experiments designed in...
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