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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hirotugu Akaike

1927 - 2009

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Hirotsugu 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 675,098 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Hirotugu Akaike is the 2,377th most popular religious figure (down from 1,946th in 2019), the 1,171st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,047th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Japanese Religious Figure.

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  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 2,377 out of 2,238Before her are George Preca, Mikel Koliqi, Pope Timothy II of Alexandria, Théodore-Adrien Sarr, Marcelo González Martín, and Teemu Sippo. After her are Chibly Langlois, Jacques Gaillot, Oliver Plunkett, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Ignacio Velasco, and Léon-Étienne Duval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 299Before her are Brock Peters, Roberto Suazo Córdova, Robert Guillaume, Adrián Escudero, Mort Sahl, and Victor Mees. After her are David Padilla, Oskar Pastior, Patrick O'Neal, Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Edmund Szoka, and Jacques Dupin. Among people deceased in 2009, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 239Before her are Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Norbert Eschmann, Jan Kaplický, Abel Goumba, Léon Glovacki, and Lukas Foss. After her are Kim Manners, Irving Kristol, Luciano Emmer, Dell Hymes, Ali Akbar Khan, and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 1,171 out of 6,048Before her are Ryo Kawasaki (1947), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967), Kaori Momoi (1951), Junko Takeuchi (1972), and Yuto Nagatomo (1986). After her are Yasushi Akashi (1931), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Akira Endo (1933), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), and Hitoshi Sasaki (1891).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Japan

Among religious figures born in Japan, Hirotugu Akaike ranks 28Before her are Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Shunryū Suzuki (1904), Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1904), Peter Doi (1892), Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), and Stephen Fumio Hamao (1930). After her are Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949).