Harold Hotelling

Harold Hotelling
Born	(1895-09-29)September 29, 1895 Fulda, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	December 26, 1973(1973-12-26) (aged 78) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Washington (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD)
Known for	Hotelling's T-square distribution Canonical correlation analysis Hotelling's law Hotelling's lemma Hotelling's rule Hotelling's location model Working–Hotelling procedure
Awards	North Carolina Award 1972
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics Economics
Institutions	Univ. of North Carolina 1946–1973 Columbia University 1931–1946 Stanford University 1927–31
Doctoral advisor	Oswald Veblen
Doctoral students	Kenneth Arrow Seymour Geisser Ralph A. Bradley

Harold Hotelling (/ˈhoʊtəlɪŋ/; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) 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.^[1][2] He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science.

He was associate professor of mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 until his death. A street in Chapel Hill bears his name. In 1972, he received the North Carolina Award for contributions to science.