Leo Katz (statistician)

Leo Katz (29 November 1914 in Detroit – 6 May 1976) was an American statistician. Katz largely contributed to the area of Social Network Analysis. In 1953, he introduced a centrality measure named Katz centrality that computes the degree of influence of an actor in a social network. The computation already outlined the algorithm today known as PageRank.[1]

In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Katz, Leo. "A new status index derived from sociometric analysis," Psychometrika, 18 (1953), 39-43
  2. ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.

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