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D-Index
38
Citations
56167
World Ranking
2257
National Ranking
948

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter McCullagh is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Mathematics, Computer Science, and Environmental Science. Within these disciplines, they have focused extensively on subfields such as Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

In terms of research topics, their work covers areas such as Statistical Methods and Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials.

Peter McCullagh has contributed to several academic publications and has had papers published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bernoulli
  • Biometrika
  • Canadian Journal of Statistics
  • Harvard Data Science Review

Their recent papers include:

  • "Some properties of a Cauchy family on the sphere derived from the Möbius transformations", 2020, Bernoulli
  • "Fisher's measure of variability in repeated samples", 2023, Bernoulli
  • "An anomaly arising in the analysis of processes with more than one source of variability", 2023, Biometrika
  • "A likelihood analysis of quantile-matching transformations", 2020, Biometrika
  • "A tale of two variances", 2023, Canadian Journal of Statistics

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, with common co-authors including Daniel Xiang, Micol Federica Tresoldi, Heather Battey, Shogo Kato, and Poly H. da Silva.

Peter McCullagh has also published a book titled Ten Projects in Applied Statistics in 2022, under Springer Science+Business Media.

The scientist has been recognized with various honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1994
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1992

Best Publications

  • Generalized Linear Models

    Peter McCullagh;John Ashworth Nelder

  • Generalized linear models. 2nd ed.

    Peter McCullagh;John A. Nelder

  • Regression Models for Ordinal Data

    Peter McCullagh

  • Generalized Linear Models

    John H. Schuenemeyer;P. McCullagh;J. A. Nelder

  • Tensor Methods in Statistics

    Peter McCullagh

  • Quasi-Likelihood Functions

    Peter McCullagh

  • Bias Correction in Generalized Linear Models

    Gauss M. Cordeiro;Peter McCullagh

  • Multivariate Logistic Models

    G. F. V. Glonek;P. McCullagh

  • The GLIM System, Release 3: Generalized linear interactive modelling

    Peter McCullagh;R. J. Baker;J. A. Nelder

  • Laplace Approximation of High Dimensional Integrals

    Zhenming Shun;Peter McCullagh

  • What is a statistical model

    Peter McCullagh

  • A Simple Method for the Adjustment of Profile Likelihoods

    Peter McCullagh;Robert Tibshirani

  • A class of parametric models for the analysis of square contingency tables with ordered categories

    P. Mccullagh

  • Some aspects of analysis of covariance.

    Cox Dr;McCullagh P

  • An outline of generalized linear models

    P. McCullagh;J. A. Nelder

  • How many clusters

    Peter McCullagh;Jie Yang

  • The Conditional Distribution of Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Discrete Data

    Peter McCullagh

  • A theory of statistical models for Monte Carlo integration

    A. Kong;P. McCullagh;X.-L. Meng;D. Nicolae

  • Möbius transformation and Cauchy parameter estimation

    Peter McCullagh

  • Case studies in binary dispersion.

    Kung-Yee Liang;Peter McCullagh

  • Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data

    Peter McCullagh

  • Discussion of "Analysis of variance--why it is more important than ever" by A. Gelman

    Peter McCullagh

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Nelder
John A. Nelder Imperial College London
Jesper Møller
Jesper Møller Aalborg University
Xiao-Li Meng
Xiao-Li Meng Harvard University
Nicholas G. Polson
Nicholas G. Polson University of Chicago
Augustine Kong
Augustine Kong University of Oxford
Dan L. Nicolae
Dan L. Nicolae University of Chicago
Arnaud Doucet
Arnaud Doucet University of Oxford
Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani Stanford University
Alexander Gammerman
Alexander Gammerman Royal Holloway University of London
Stephen E. Fienberg
Stephen E. Fienberg Carnegie Mellon University

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