Selected papers of Hirotugu Akaike

by Hirotsugu Akaike

The pioneering research of Hirotugu Akaike has an international reputation for profoundly affecting how data and time series are analyzed and modelled and is highly regarded by the statistical and technological communities of Japan and the world. His 1974 paper "A New Look at the Statistical Model Identification" is one of the most frequently cited papers in the areas of engineering, technology, and applied sciences. It introduced the broad scientific community to model identification using the methods of Akaike's criterion AIC. The AIC method is cited and applied in almost every area of physical and social science.