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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.

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

References

1. Katz, Leo. "A new status index derived from sociometric analysis," Psychometrika, 18 (1953), 39–43
2. View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 16 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.

External links

• Olkin, Ingram (1977), "Obituary: Leo Katz", Journal of Applied Probability, 14 (4): 891–896, doi:10.2307/3213365, JSTOR 3213364

• American statisticians
• 1914 births
• 1976 deaths
• Scientists from Detroit
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• Fellows of the American Statistical Association