Helen MacGillivray

1.7k total citations
63 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Helen MacGillivray is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen MacGillivray has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Statistics and Probability, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Helen MacGillivray's work include Statistics Education and Methodologies (29 papers), Mathematics Education and Programs (12 papers) and Data Analysis with R (8 papers). Helen MacGillivray is often cited by papers focused on Statistics Education and Methodologies (29 papers), Mathematics Education and Programs (12 papers) and Data Analysis with R (8 papers). Helen MacGillivray collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Helen MacGillivray's co-authors include Kevin P. Balanda, Robert King, Tony Croft, Michele Haynes, Kerrie Mengersen, Barry G. Quinn, Paul Hewson, Arthur L. Schwartz, Ian J. Turner and Timothy B. Erickson and has published in prestigious journals such as Clinical Chemistry, The Annals of Statistics and The American Statistician.

In The Last Decade

Helen MacGillivray

52 papers receiving 961 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helen MacGillivray Australia	13	462	172	144	137	132	63	1.1k
Dost Muhammad Khan Pakistan	18	172 0.4×	151 0.9×	28 0.2×	36 0.3×	23 0.2×	76	902
Thomas Sellke United States	12	961 2.1×	400 2.3×	16 0.1×	101 0.7×	167 1.3×	27	2.1k
Deborah Nolan United States	15	865 1.9×	401 2.3×	100 0.7×	9 0.1×	118 0.9×	43	1.3k
Joachim Engel Germany	14	426 0.9×	124 0.7×	135 0.9×	15 0.1×	29 0.2×	62	721
David L. Farnsworth United States	11	441 1.0×	126 0.7×	16 0.1×	12 0.1×	67 0.5×	52	1.1k
William L. Goffe United States	9	82 0.2×	151 0.9×	153 1.1×	7 0.1×	103 0.8×	21	1.6k
Surajit Ray United States	16	208 0.5×	270 1.6×	17 0.1×	21 0.2×	44 0.3×	41	1.1k
Jeffrey Glosup United States	9	224 0.5×	127 0.7×	18 0.1×	10 0.1×	177 1.3×	10	1.0k
Robert King Australia	17	484 1.0×	132 0.8×	7 0.0×	16 0.1×	61 0.5×	67	1.1k
Bernhard Klar Germany	20	448 1.0×	108 0.6×	27 0.2×	8 0.1×	363 2.8×	65	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

MacGillivray, Helen. (2025). Collaboration and Leadership in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 67(4). 527–552.

MacGillivray, Helen. (2024). In praise of pioneers. Teaching Statistics. 46(3). 121–121.

MacGillivray, Helen. (2023). Choosing and using data and contexts for learning. Teaching Statistics. 45(2). 59–60. 1 indexed citations

MacGillivray, Helen. (2008). Examples from an introductory course in developing probabilistic statistical thinking: Part 1. MSOR Connections. 8(1). 7–10. 2 indexed citations

MacGillivray, Helen. (2008). Examples from an introductory course in developing probabilistic statistical thinking: Part 2. MSOR Connections. 8(2). 2–5. 1 indexed citations

MacGillivray, Helen, et al.. (2005). Numeracy Counts in the Statistical Reasoning Equation. Science & Engineering Faculty. 5(1). 24–28. 1 indexed citations

MacGillivray, Helen. (2005). Statistics and schooling. MSOR Connections. 5(3). 1 indexed citations

Hambly, N. C., Mike Read, Robert G. Mann, et al.. (2004). The SuperCOSMOS Science Archive. ASPC. 314. 137. 1 indexed citations

MacGillivray, Helen. (2004). Coherent and Purposeful Development in Statistics across the Educational Spectrum. 9 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen, et al.. (2003). The Gap between Assumed Skills and Reality in Mathematics Learning. Clinical Chemistry. 39(5). 920–920. 3 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen, et al.. (2002). Weighted quantile-based estimation for a class of transformation distributions. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 39(4). 401–433. 17 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen. (2002). A Thousand Projects. MSOR Connections. 2(1). 8–13. 2 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen. (2001). Statistics Education Downunder: a snapshot of a decade and a glance to the future. MSOR Connections. 1(4). 11a–14. 1 indexed citations

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King, Robert & Helen MacGillivray. (1999). Theory & Methods: A Starship Estimation Method for the Generalized λ Distributions. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 41(3). 353–374. 49 indexed citations

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Balanda, Kevin P. & Helen MacGillivray. (1988). Kurtosis: A Critical Review. The American Statistician. 42(2). 111–119. 293 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen & Kevin P. Balanda. (1988). Mixtures, myths and kurtosis. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 17(3). 789–802. 4 indexed citations

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Quinn, Barry G. & Helen MacGillivray. (1986). Normal approximations to discrete unimodal distributions. Journal of Applied Probability. 23(4). 1013–1018. 1 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen. (1985). A crossing theorem for distribution functions and their moments. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. 31(3). 413–419. 2 indexed citations

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MacGillivray, Helen. (1981). A note on the normalised moments of distributions with non-monotonic hazard rate. Journal of Applied Probability. 18(2). 530–535.

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MacGillivray, Helen. (1980). The moment ratios of particle size distributions in some simple growth models. Journal of Applied Probability. 17(4). 956–967. 1 indexed citations

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