Leo Katz (statistician), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Leo Katz (statistician)

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1914

Date of Death: 06-May-1976

Profession: mathematician, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Leo Katz (29 November 1914 in Detroit – 6 May 1976) was an American statistician.
Katz largely contributed to the area of Social Network Analysis.
In 1953, he introduced a centrality measure named Katz centrality that computes the degree of influence of an actor in a social network.
The computation already outlined the algorithm today known as PageRank.In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.