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Journal Of Classification
''Journal of Classification'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is the official journal of The Classification Society. The journal publishes three issues a year on topics in the field of classification, numerical taxonomy, multidimensional scaling and other ordination techniques, cluster analysis, tree structures and other network models. Each issue typically comprises four sections: articles, short notes and comments, software abstracts, and book reviews. Editors-in-Chief Since the foundation of the ''Journal of Classification'' in 1984, there have been four Editors-in-Chief. The current Editor-in-Chief is Paul McNicholas. The previous Editors-in-Chief were: Douglas L. Steinley (2015–2020); Willem Heiser (2002–2015); and Phipps Arabie (1984–2002). Abstracting and indexing ''Journal of Classification'' is abstracted and indexed in DBLP, Journal Citation Reports, Mathematical Reviews, Research Papers in Economics, SCImag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McNicholas (statistician)
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. Education and career McNicholas attended Trinity College Dublin where in 2004 he received a B.A. (Mod.) in Mathematics. He also holds an M.Sc. in High Performance Computing and a Ph.D. in Statistics. His 2007 Ph.D. thesis is entitled ''Topics in Unsupervised Learning''. McNicholas started his faculty career at University of Guelph in 2007. In 2014, he joined McMaster University. He has authored more than 100 scientific works cited over 4000 times. The majority of his research has been on model-based clustering, specifically in dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |