John A. Hartigan

John Anthony Hartigan
Born (1937-07-02) July 2, 1937 (age 87)
Sydney, Australia
EducationUniversity of Sydney
Princeton University
Known forBiclustering
Scientific career
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Yale University
Doctoral advisorJohn Tukey
Frank Anscombe
Doctoral studentsBill Eddy
Michael D. Escobar
Websitewww.stat.yale.edu/~jah49/

John Anthony Hartigan (born July 2, 1937) is an Australian-American statistician, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Statistics emeritus at Yale University. He made fundamental contributions to clustering algorithms, including the famous Hartigan-Wong method and biclustering,[1] and Bayesian statistics.[2]

  1. ^ Hartigan, J. A. (1972). "Direct Clustering of a Data Matrix". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 67 (337): 123–129. doi:10.1080/01621459.1972.10481214. ISSN 0162-1459.
  2. ^ "John Hartigan's contributions to clustering" (PDF).