Harold Hotelling (September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science.
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29 September 1895 Fulda, Minnesota, U.S.
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26 December 1973 (aged 78) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
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Zodiac | Libra |
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