Jean-Paul Benzécri, Date of Birth

Jean-Paul Benzécri

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1932

Profession: mathematician, statistician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jean-Paul Benzécri (February 28, 1932 – November 24, 2019) was 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 was also one of the inventors of the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.