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Hirotugu Akaike, a Common card
Hirotugu Akaike was a Japanese statistician.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,800
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Hirotugu Akaike quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hirotugu Akaike card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Akaike also made major ______ to the study of time series.
Answer
contributions. Akaike also made major contributions to the study of time series. From the Hirotugu Akaike article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In the early ____s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion.
Answer
1970s. In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion. From the Hirotugu Akaike article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion.
- AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of statistical inference, additionally, AIC is the basis of a paradigm for the foundations of statistics.
- Akaike also made major contributions to the study of time series.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hirotugu Akaike article was read about 8,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Hirotugu Akaike
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hirotugu Akaike (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
