Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American
statistician
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It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...
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
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and completed his PhD at
Imperial College London
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, supervised by
David Cox and Anthony Atkinson.
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Research
McCullagh is the coauthor with John Nelder
John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.
Contributions
Nelder's work was inf ...
of ''Generalized Linear Models'' (1983, Chapman and Hall
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– second edition 1989), a seminal text on the subject of