Selected Papers of Hirotugu Akaike
Springer Series in Statistics
Edited by E. Parzen, K. Tanabe and G. Kitagawa
Springer Verlag, New York, ISBN 0-387-98355-4
The pioneering research of Hirotugu Akaike has an international
reputation for profoundly affecting how data and time series are
analysed and modelled and is highly regared by the statistical and
technological communities of Japan and the world.
His 1974 paper "A New Look at Statistical Model Identification" is
one of the most frequently cited papers in the area of engeneering,
technology, and applied sciences. It introduced the broad scientific
community to model identification using the mothods of Akaike's
criterion AIC. The AIC method is cited and applied in almost
every area of physical and social science.
The best way to learn about the seminal ideas of pioneering researches
is to read their original papers. This book reprints 29 papers
of Akaike's more than 140 papers. The selected papers divided into six groups,
represent successive phases of Akaike's research interests during his more than\
40
years of work at he prestigious Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo.
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