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 edit
- ^ Katz, Leo. "A new status index derived from sociometric analysis," Psychometrika, 18 (1953), 39–43
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
External links edit
- Olkin, Ingram (1977), "Obituary: Leo Katz", Journal of Applied Probability, 14 (4): 891–896, doi:10.2307/3213365, JSTOR 3213364