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Geoff Nicholls
Also known as Geoff K. Nicholls (OpenAlex)
New Zealand statisticianborn 1964
Supervised 9 doctoral students at University of Oxford and Oxford University between 2010 and 2024; Wikidata names Peter Landshoff as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred
Students9
- cited by a thesis record
Chuxuan Jiang“Bayesian inference on partial orders from random rank-order data”
2024 · University of Oxford · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Schyan Zafar“Applied Bayesian inference for diachronic meaning change”
2024 · University of Oxford · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christian U Carmona Perez“Bayesian Semi-Modular Inference: theory and methods for inference in multi-modular settings under model misspecification”
2023 · University of Oxford · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Lorenzo Pacchiardi“Statistical inference in generative models using scoring rules”
2022 · University of Oxford · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2022 · University of Oxford · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Ross Haines“Simultaneous reconstruction of spatial frequency fields and field sample locations”
2016 · University of Oxford · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2016 · University of Oxford · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Alexis Muir Watt“Inference for partial orders from random linear extensions”
2015 · University of Oxford · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Robin Ryder“Phylogenetic Models of Language Diversification”
2010 · Oxford University · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata5
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
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The line above and below4 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataPeter Landshoff
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Polkinghorne
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataAbdus Salamstated by WikidataPaul Diracstated by WikidataWilliam McKenzie
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataNicholas Kemmerstated by WikidataPaul Taunton Matthewsstated by WikidataRalph H. Fowler
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 21 people: 11 cited by thesis records, 11 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career2
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- until 1990studied
- undatedworked
Sat beside the lineage1
jury member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Grégoire Clarté“Some contributions to computational Bayesian methods with application to phylolinguistics”
jury member · 2021 · Université Paris sciences et lettres · doctoral