#2947 Overall Influence

Harold Hotelling

American economist and statistician

About

Why is this person notable and influential?

Harold Hotelling 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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Schools

What schools is this person affiliated with?

Columbia University

Private Ivy League research university in New York City

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Princeton University

Private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Stanford University

Private research university located in Stanford, California, United States

University of Washington

Public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States

Influence Rankings by Discipline

How’s this person influential?

#58 World Rank #28 USA Rank

Economics

#382 World Rank #65 USA Rank

Mathematics