Peter McCullagh

Peter McCullagh
Peter McCullagh
Born	8 January 1952; Northern Ireland
Education	University of Birmingham; Imperial College London (PhD);
Known for	McCullagh's parametrization of the Cauchy distributions
Awards	Guy Medal (bronze, 1983) (silver, 2005) (gold, 2026); COPSS Presidents' Award (1990); Fellow of the Royal Society (1994);
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Workplaces	University of Chicago
Thesis	Analysis of Ordered Categorical Data (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Anthony C. Atkinson; David Roxbee Cox;
Doctoral students	Gauss Cordeiro;
Website	www.stat.uchicago.edu/~pmcc

Peter McCullagh FRS (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.