Leo Katz (29 November 1914 in Detroit – 6 May 1976) was an American statistician. Katz largely contributed to the area of

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Analysis. In 1953, he introduced a centrality measure named

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that computes the degree of influence of an actor in a social network. The computation already outlined the algorithm today known as

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. In 1956 he was elected as a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Katz, Leo American statisticians 1914 births 1976 deaths Scientists from Detroit 20th-century American mathematicians Fellows of the American Statistical Association