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PARZEN, E., TANABE, K., and KITAGAWA, G. (editors). Selected Papers of Hirotugu Akaike. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998. viii + 434 pp. $59.95/L47.50. ISBN 0-38798355-4.
This volume forms part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo. Hirotugu Akaike carried out research at the Institute for more than forty years, being its Director General from 1986 to 1994. Twenty-nine out of more than 140 of his papers are reprinted here. Many were published...