Jean-Paul Benzécri

Jean-Paul Benzécri
Jean-Paul Benzécri in 2009.
Born	(1932-02-28)28 February 1932
Died	24 November 2019(2019-11-24) (aged 87)
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Doctoral advisor	Henri Cartan

Jean-Paul Benzécri (28 February 1932 – 24 November 2019)^[1] was a French mathematician and 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 was also one of the inventors of the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.

References[]

• Histoire et préhistoire de l'analyse des données, Dunod, 1982, ISBN 2-04-015467-1
• L'analyse des données / leçons sur l'analyse factorielle et la reconnaissance des formes et travaux, Dunod 1982, ISBN 2-04-015515-5
• Linguistique et lexicologie, Dunod, 2007 [ré-édition], ISBN 2-04-010776-2
• Pratique de l'analyse des données, Dunod, 1980, ISBN 2-04-015732-8
• Revue Les cahiers de l'analyse des données, Gauthier-Villars, Dunod, 1980–1990

External links[]

• Jean-Paul Benzécri at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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