Peter McCullagh

Peter McCullagh is the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Chicago. He is also a member of the Royal Society. McCullagh is the co-author, with John Nelder, of Generalized Linear Models (1983), a seminal text on its subject. His work seeks to develop a mathematical foundation for statistical models. His research interests also include spatial models in agricultural applications, variance components and structured covariance models, random objects, Monte-Carlo integration as an application of a statistical model, notions of exchangeability and partial exchangeability, and category theory, statistical theory and methods, and projective systems. In 1990 he received the prestigious COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents' Award. He is a Scientific Advisory Panel member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.