About Peter McCullagh
Born 1952. Peter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, mathematician and university teacher, known for McCullagh's parametrization of the Cauchy distributions.
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Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.
Education McCullagh is from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended St Columb's College Derry (1963-1970), studied mathematics at the University of Birmingham and completed his PhD at Imperial College London in 1977, supervised by David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. .
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.
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Irish statistician
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Peter McCullagh was born on 8 January 1952 in Northern Ireland, Plumbridge.
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Peter McCullagh is a statistician, mathematician and university teacher.
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Peter McCullagh is known for McCullagh's parametrization of the Cauchy distributions.
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