John A. Hartigan

John Anthony Hartigan
Born (1937-07-02) July 2, 1937 (age 87)
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).