RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hirotugu Akaike

1927 - 2009

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Hirotugu Akaike (赤池 弘次, Akaike Hirotsugu, IPA: [akaike çiɾotsɯɡɯ], November 5, 1927 – August 4, 2009) was a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion (AIC). AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of statistical inference; additionally, AIC is the basis of a paradigm for the foundations of statistics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hirotugu Akaike has received more than 680,180 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Hirotugu Akaike is the 2,482nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,360th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,168th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 2,482 out of 3,187. Before her are Milman Parry, Ned Maddrell, Antony II of Constantinople, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Karolina Kózka, and Leonid Stadnyk. After her are Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Paolo Sardi, Sehetepibre, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Olympianus of Byzantium, and Gualtiero Bassetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 275. Before her are Abdelaziz Ben Tifour, Robert Mills, Giovanni Arpino, Pierre Aubert, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and Robert Alt. After her are Tihomir Ognjanov, George O. Abell, Harold Brown, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Jan Myrdal, and Joachim Fuchsberger. Among people deceased in 2009, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 219. Before her are Jack Cardiff, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Reinhard Mohn, Lis Hartel, Otar Chiladze, and Zena Marshall. After her are Henri Pousseur, Pierre Chaunu, G. A. Cohen, Olja Ivanjicki, Pio Laghi, and Arne Bendiksen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 1,163 out of 6,245. Before her are Masato Harada (1949), Ayako Wakao (1933), Masamune Shirow (1961), Gozo Shioda (1915), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), and Kenjiro Tsuda (1971). After her are Masayuki Uemura (1943), Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918), Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Ikuo Matsumoto (1941), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), and Yoshiki Tanaka (1952).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Japan

Among religious figures born in Japan, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 29. Before her are Moriteru Ueshiba (1951), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Peter Doi (1892), Shunryū Suzuki (1904), and Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1904). After her are Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Stephen Fumio Hamao (1930), Peter Takeo Okada (1941), Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi (1958), Yoshiharu Habu (1970), and Jung-hoo Lee (1998).

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