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Jean-Paul Benzécri

Jean-Paul Benzécri
Born 1932
Nationality French
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure
Doctoral advisor Henri Cartan
Doctoral students Pierre Cazes
Michael Greenacre
Michaelis Meimaris
Jean-Marie Monget
Fionn Murtagh
Iannis Papadimitriou
Pierre Teillard
Yosu 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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