Ludovic Lebart (born 1942) is a French statistician. He is a senior researcher at the

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and a professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris. His research interests are the exploratory analysis of qualitative and textual data. He has coauthored several books on descriptive multivariate statistics, survey methodology, and exploratory analysis of textual data. He was a part of a research group in France led by

Jean-Paul Benzécri Jean-Paul Benzécri was a French mathematician and statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and was professor at Université de Rennes and later for most of his career at the Paris Institute of Statistics (l'Institut de Statistique ...

that made significant contributions to the development of

correspondence analysis Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate statistical technique proposed by Herman Otto Hartley (Hirschfeld) and later developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri. It is conceptually similar to principal component analysis, but applies to categorical ...

." Benzécri gathered around him an influential team in France who made a large contribution to the early development of MCA—notably, Ludovic Lebart and Brigitte Escofier, to mention but two of the original key coworkers" in Greenacre, M., Blasius, J., 2006, p.6
Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods.
Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton.

Main publications (in English)

* L. Lebart, A. Morineau, and K. Warwick (Elisabeth Moraillon Berry, trans.), ''Multivariate Descriptive Statistical Analysis: Correspondence Analysis and Related Techniques for Large Matrices'', New York: John Wiley and sons, 1984. * L. Lebart, A. Salem, and L. Berry, ''Exploring Textual Data'', Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1998. * L. Lebart, Chapter 7: "Validation Techniques in Multiple Correspondence Analysis". In M. Greenacre and J. Blasius, eds., ''Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Techniques'', Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2006, pp. 179–196. * L. Lebart, "Validation technique in

Text Mining Text mining, text data mining (TDM) or text analytics is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. It involves "the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting information from differe ...

". In : Spiros Sirmakessis (ed.), ''Text Mining and its Application'', Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2004, pp. 169–178 * L. Lebart, Chapter 8: "Complementary use of Correspondence Analysis and

Cluster Analysis Cluster analysis or clustering is the data analyzing technique in which task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more Similarity measure, similar (in some specific sense defined by the ...

". In M. Greenacre and J. Blasius, eds, ''Correspondence Analysis in Social Sciences'', London:

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, 1994.

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