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Who is Hirotugu Akaike Life

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NOVEMBER 05, 2017 13:50 IST
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 05, 2017 16:26 IST

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Google Doodle pays tribute to the award-winning Japanese statistician on his 90th birth anniversary.

Google on Sunday paid tribute to Japanese statistician Hirotugu Akaike with a doodle on his 90th birth anniversary.
Born on November 5, 1927, he is known for the formulation of, "Akaike Information Criterion", which helps in deriving the
accurate variables to select the best statistical model "from a set of options by measuring how close the results are to the
(hypothetical) truth."
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The doodle portrays Dr. Akaike against "a Google-inspired approximation of functions, parameters, and their respective
curves," Google said in its blog.

In a post-war Japan, Dr. Akaike aspired to work on problems that were unique to his country and contribute to its re-
construction. He used the fundamental concepts of information mathematics to analyze the processing of sericultural
products, cement kiln controls, and thermal electric power plant controls to provide a breakthrough solution to the model
selection problem.

As a result, the AIC is widely used today as a practical guideline for the selection of statistical models in a wide range of areas
including medicine, epidemiology, biology, control engineering, economics, environmentology, geophysics and social
sciences, as well as the fields of mathematics and statistics, according to his citation for the Kyoto Prize 2006.
Dr. Akaike is a recipient of many awards including Kyoto Prize in 2006, Purple Ribbon Medal and the Asahi Prize. He passed
away on August 4, 2009, at the age of 82.

The doodle is visible to users in India, Japan, New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Cuba, Estonia, Greece, Iceland,
Portugal and Sweden

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