Nationality Irish Fields Statistics Role Statistician | Name Peter McCullagh | |
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Born 8 January 1952 (age 72) ( 1952-01-08 ) Alma mater University of Birmingham
Imperial College London (PhD) Thesis Analysis of Ordered Categorical Data. (1977) Doctoral advisor Anthony C. Atkinson
David Roxbee Cox Doctoral students Chih-Rung Chen
David Clifford
Gauss Cordeiro
Harry Crane
Melinda Drum
Su-Yeon Kim
John Kolassa
Bing Li
Zhenming Shun
Zhiqiang Tan
Ernst-Jan Wit
Jie Yang
Qi-Yu Zhang Books Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition Education Imperial College London, University of Birmingham | ||
Institutions University of Chicago | ||
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Peter McCullagh FRS (born 8 January 1952) is an Irish statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.
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Education
McCullagh is 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.
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. He also wrote "Tensor Methods in Statistics", published originally in 1987.
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)". He won a Notable Alumni Award in 2007 from his grammar school, St Columb's College.