Harold Hotelling 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. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science.
- Occupation
- mathematician, economist, statistician, university teacher
- Position held
- chairperson, president
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 29, 1895
- Died
