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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