Peter McCullagh

Peter McCullagh
Born	(1952-01-08) 8 January 1952
Nationality	Irish
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of Chicago
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
Known for	McCullagh's parametrization of the Cauchy distributions
Notable awards	Guy Medal (Bronze, 1983) (Silver, 2005) COPSS Presidents' Award (1990) Fellow of the Royal Society(1994)
Website www.stat.uchicago.edu/~pmcc

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.

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.

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.

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.