Peter McCullagh

33.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
156 papers, 25.3k citations indexed

About

Peter McCullagh is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Immunology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter McCullagh has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 25.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Statistics and Probability, 38 papers in Immunology and 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Peter McCullagh's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (21 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (20 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (20 papers). Peter McCullagh is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (21 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (20 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (20 papers). Peter McCullagh collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Peter McCullagh's co-authors include J. A. Nelder, Terry M. Therneau, Ib M. Skovgaard, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Gary Glonek, Zhenming Shun, Robert Tibshirani, Robert J. Baker, Alan Agresti and David A. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Peter McCullagh

150 papers receiving 23.7k citations

Hit Papers

Generalized Linear Models 1980 2026 1995 2010 1989 1993 1980 1988 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Generalized Linear Models
    1989 13.1k citations Peter McCullagh et al. profile →
  2. Generalized Linear Models (2nd ed.).
    1993 4.2k citations Peter McCullagh et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  3. Regression Models for Ordinal Data
    1980 3.2k citations Peter McCullagh Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) profile →
  4. Tensor Methods in Statistics.
    1988 627 citations Peter McCullagh et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter McCullagh Australia 32 7.0k 3.0k 2.7k 2.6k 2.1k 156 25.3k
Sanford Weisberg United States 43 5.1k 0.7× 4.9k 1.6× 2.0k 0.7× 3.7k 1.4× 1.0k 0.5× 149 29.3k
Alan Agresti United States 61 6.9k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 2.8k 1.0× 967 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 164 28.3k
David J. Spiegelhalter United Kingdom 59 9.5k 1.4× 2.6k 0.9× 6.3k 2.3× 1.9k 0.7× 5.0k 2.4× 133 35.1k
Peter J. Diggle United Kingdom 83 4.4k 0.6× 2.2k 0.7× 2.4k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 3.6k 1.7× 447 27.3k
J. A. Nelder United Kingdom 48 9.4k 1.3× 4.8k 1.6× 5.5k 2.0× 4.3k 1.6× 3.1k 1.5× 153 55.9k
David W. Hosmer United States 46 2.1k 0.3× 3.0k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 3.0k 1.5× 114 50.4k
Hirotugu Akaike Japan 33 4.3k 0.6× 4.2k 1.4× 5.5k 2.0× 2.9k 1.1× 4.0k 1.9× 80 51.7k
Stanley Lemeshow United States 71 2.1k 0.3× 3.0k 1.0× 2.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 3.6k 1.7× 227 59.4k
W. J. Conover United States 31 1.8k 0.3× 2.8k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 71 29.2k
John W. Tukey United States 70 8.1k 1.1× 1.7k 0.6× 6.7k 2.5× 1.1k 0.4× 2.8k 1.4× 229 52.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter McCullagh

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McCullagh, Peter, et al.. (2023). Fisher’s measure of variability in repeated samples. Bernoulli. 29(2). 3 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter. (2023). Early Interactions With David Cox. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 1 indexed citations
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Kato, Shogo & Peter McCullagh. (2020). Some properties of a Cauchy family on the sphere derived from the Möbius transformations. Bernoulli. 26(4). 12 indexed citations
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Dempsey, Walter & Peter McCullagh. (2018). Survival models and health sequences. Lifetime Data Analysis. 24(4). 550–584. 5 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter. (2018). Tensor Methods in Statistics. 39 indexed citations
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Dempsey, Walter & Peter McCullagh. (2014). The pilgrim's process. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Yang, Jie, Klaus J. Miescke, & Peter McCullagh. (2011). Classification Based on Permanental Process with Cyclic Approximations. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter & John E. Kolassa. (2009). Cumulants. Scholarpedia. 4(3). 4699–4699. 8 indexed citations
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Kong, Augustine, et al.. (2003). Discussion on the Paper by Kong, McCullagh, Meng, Nicolae and Tan. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 65(3). 604–618. 1 indexed citations
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McClure, Susan, et al.. (2003). Intestinal exposure to a parasite antigen in utero depresses cellular and cytokine responses of the mucosal immune system. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 93(3-4). 91–105. 3 indexed citations
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Jenne, Craig N., et al.. (2003). A New Model of Sheep Ig Diversification: Shifting the Emphasis Toward Combinatorial Mechanisms and Away from Hypermutation. The Journal of Immunology. 170(7). 3739–3750. 37 indexed citations
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Press, Charles McL., Peter McCullagh, & Thor Landsverk. (2001). Effect of early fetal splenectomy on prenatal B‐cell development in sheep. Immunology. 102(2). 131–136. 13 indexed citations
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Alitheen, Noorjahan Banu, Susan McClure, & Peter McCullagh. (2001). Segregation of B lymphocytes into stationary apoptotic and migratory proliferating subpopulations in agglomerate cultures with ileal epithelium. European Journal of Immunology. 31(9). 2558–2565. 4 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter. (1996). The Significance of Immune Suppression in Normal Self Tolerance. Immunological Reviews. 149(1). 127–153. 28 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter. (1993). On the distribution of the Cauchy maximum-likelihood estimator. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 440(1909). 475–479. 8 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter, et al.. (1992). The influence of intravenously introduced allogeneic lymphocytes on fetal rats. Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 22(2). 143–151. 2 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter. (1989). Some Statistical Properties of a Family of Continuous Univariate Distributions. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 84(405). 125–129. 25 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter & Allan R. Wilks. (1988). Complementary set partitions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 415(1849). 347–362. 5 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Peter. (1986). [Testing in Industrial Experiments with Ordered Categorical Data]: Discussion. Technometrics. 28(4). 307–307. 4 indexed citations

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