Paul McNicholas (statistician)
Paul McNicholas | |
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| Born | Paul David McNicholas |
| Nationality | Irish, Canadian |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Known for | Classification, clustering, mixture models |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Guelph McMaster University |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Brendan Murphy, Myra O'Regan |
| Website | www |
Paul D. McNicholas is an Irish-Canadian statistician. He is a professor and University Scholar in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. In 2015, McNicholas was awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics. McNicholas uses computational statistics techniques, and mixture models in particular, to gain insight into large and complex datasets. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Classification.