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Geoffrey McLachlan

Australian statistician
Person human Q28132613

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[21]
Date of birth
October 3, 1946, 1946[7]
Place of birth
Rockhampton
Occupation
computer scientist, statistician, mathematician, university teacher
Employer
University of Queensland[15]
Field of work
mathematics, statistics, discriminant analysis, statistical method, machine learning, artificial neural network, statistical analysis, statistical analysis[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Educated at
University of Queensland[16]
Award received
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Pitman Medal[18][19][20]
Doctoral advisor
Stephen Lipton[17]
Doctoral student
Kaye Basford[22]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[26]
Family name
McLachlan[23]
Given name
Geoffrey, John[24][25]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[27]
🏷️ Also known as
en Geoff McLachlan en Geoffrey J. McLachlan en Geoffrey John McLachlan en Geoffrey McLachlan cs Geoffrey J. Mac Lachlan cs Geoffrey J. MacLachlan cs Geoffrey J. Mc Lachlan cs G. J. McLachlan fr Geoff McLachlan fr Geoffrey J. McLachlan fr Geoffrey John McLachlan nl Geoffrey J McLachlan
🔖 Identifiers · 42
ISNI
000000010870588X
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5921-3145
VIAF cluster ID
12388685, 2368165628833642480000
Library of Congress authority ID
n87872653
GND ID
128823348
BIBSYS ID
90401533
BNB person ID (OBSOLETE)
McLachlanGeoffreyJ1946-
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12378178j
CANTIC ID
981058599326906706
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12121603
CiNii Research ID
1140000791709522688
DBLP author ID
83/3246
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Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID
P007274b
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11c61fs_yf
Google Scholar author ID
1bYCHtsAAAAJ
IdRef ID
032828055
KBR person ID
14082312
Libraries Australia ID
35122912
Libris-URI
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MR Author ID
122595
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
248659
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA02062971
NL CR AUT ID
mub2014842998
NLA Trove people ID
833086
NUKAT ID
n97037661
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007424993505171
National Library of Latvia ID
000038989
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9812829020205606
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
073517232
Open Library ID
OL540572A
Prabook ID
3465009
RERO ID (legacy)
A003546573
ResearcherID
A-1491-2008
SBN author ID
MILV033560
SELIBR ID
313002
SHARE Catalogue author ID
27687
UOM ID
74359
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058599326906706
University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)
a1023597
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/e167c57b-9f58-479e-89bb-f08c6a1415e5
ZbMATH author ID
mclachlan.geoffrey-john

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Author of 17
A globally convergent algorithm for lasso-penalized mixture of linear regression models, An Automated Machine learning (AutoML) approach to regression models in minerals processing with case studies of developing industrial comminution and flotation models, A new algorithm for support vector regression with automatic selection of hyperparameters, Approximation of probability density functions via location-scale finite mixtures in Lebesgue spaces, A Simple Parallel EM Algorithm for Statistical Learning via Mixture Models, A Universal Approximation Theorem for Mixture-of-Experts Models, Corruption-Resistant Privacy Preserving Distributed EM Algorithm for Model-Based Clustering, Deep Gaussian mixture models +9 more
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A globally convergent algorithm for lasso-penalized mixture of linear regression models, An Automated Machine learning (AutoML) approach to regression models in minerals processing with case studies of developing industrial comminution and flotation models, A new algorithm for support vector regression with automatic selection of hyperparameters, Approximation of probability density functions via location-scale finite mixtures in Lebesgue spaces, A Simple Parallel EM Algorithm for Statistical Learning via Mixture Models, A Universal Approximation Theorem for Mixture-of-Experts Models, Corruption-Resistant Privacy Preserving Distributed EM Algorithm for Model-Based Clustering, Deep Gaussian mixture models +9 more
Field of work 6
mathematics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, artificial neural network, discriminant analysis
Occupation 4
mathematician, computer scientist, statistician, university teacher
Affiliated with 1
University of Queensland
Educated at 1
University of Queensland
Employer 1
University of Queensland
Given name 1
Geoffrey
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Place of birth 1
Rockhampton
Sex or gender 1
male
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Summary

Geoffrey McLachlan was born on October 3, 1946[1], in Rockhampton[2]. He has worked as a computer scientist[3], statistician[4], mathematician[5], and university teacher[6].

FAQs

Where was Geoffrey McLachlan born?

Geoffrey McLachlan was born in Rockhampton[2].

What did Geoffrey McLachlan do for work?

Geoffrey McLachlan worked as a computer scientist[3], statistician[4], mathematician[5], and university teacher[6].

Where did Geoffrey McLachlan go to school?

Geoffrey McLachlan was educated at University of Queensland[16].

What awards did Geoffrey McLachlan receive?

Honors received include Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science[18], Fellow of the American Statistical Association[19], and Pitman Medal[20].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [4] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [5] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [6] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . science.org.au. Retrieved . science.org.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Fellows of the American Statistical Association database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . statsoc.org.au. statsoc.org.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [1] ↑ . VIAF ID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [7] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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