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McCullagh is originally from [[Plumbridge]], [[Northern Ireland]]. He attended the [[University of Birmingham]] and completed his PhD at [[Imperial College London]], supervised by [[David Cox (statistician)|David Cox]] and Anthony Atkinson.<ref name=mathgene/> |
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Peter McCullagh | |
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| Born | 8 January 1952[2] |
| Nationality | Irish |
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| Known for | McCullagh's parametrization of the Cauchy distributions |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Analysis of Ordered Categorical Data. (1977) |
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| Website | www |
Peter McCullagh, FRS is an Irish statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.[2]
Education
McCullagh is originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended the University of Birmingham and completed his PhD at Imperial College London, supervised by David Cox and Anthony Atkinson.[1]
Research
McCullagh is the coauthor with John Nelder of Generalized Linear Models (1983, Chapman and Hall – second edition 1989), a seminal text on the subject of generalized linear models (GLMs) with more than 23,000 citations. [citation needed]
Awards and honours
McCullagh is a member of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1990. He was the recipient of the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Bronze in 1983 and in Silver in 2005.
He was also the recipient of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize of the International Statistical Institute, with John Nelder, "for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983)".[3] He won a Notable Alumni Award in 2007 from his grammar school, St Columb's College.
References
- ^ a b c Peter McCullagh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b McCULLAGH. "McCULLAGH, Prof. Peter". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter|othernames=ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required) - ^ "The inaugural Karl Pearson Prize". The International Statistical Institute. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
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