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John D Biggins
D. Phil. University of Oxford 1976
Wikidata names John Kingman as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.
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Advisors on Wikidata1
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Students on Wikidata6
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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.
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stated by WikidataJohn Kingman
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stated by WikidataDavid George Kendallstated by WikidataPeter Whittle
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataHerman Woldstated by WikidataM. S. Bartlett
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stated by WikidataHarald Cramérstated by WikidataJohn Wishart
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 33 people: 33 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
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Papers in OpenAlex68
1976most in 1993: 62025
last at University of Sheffield
writes on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, Probability and Statistical Research, Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals, Avian ecology and behavior
- indexed by OpenAlex1988 · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) · 2 authorscited 966
- indexed by OpenAlex1977 · Journal of Applied Probability · 1 authorcited 309
- indexed by OpenAlex2004 · Advances in Applied Probability · 2 authorscited 218
- indexed by OpenAlex1977 · Journal of Applied Probability · 1 authorcited 180
- indexed by OpenAlexcited 178
The first- and last-birth problems for a multitype age-dependent branching process
1976 · Advances in Applied Probability · 1 author - indexed by OpenAlexcited 170
Uniform Convergence of Martingales in the Branching Random Walk
1992 · The Annals of Probability · 1 author - indexed by OpenAlex1994 · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) · 3 authorscited 139
- indexed by OpenAlex1997 · The Annals of Probability · 2 authorscited 135
- indexed by OpenAlex1987 · Ethology · 2 authorscited 124
- indexed by OpenAlex2005 · Electronic Journal of Probability · 2 authorscited 105
the 25 most cited of 68
- indexed by OpenAlex1978 · Advances in Applied Probability · 1 authorcited 98
- indexed by OpenAlex1979 · Probability Theory and Related Fields · 1 authorcited 95
- indexed by OpenAlex2004 · Evolution · 5 authorscited 82
- indexed by OpenAlex1993 · Advances in Applied Probability · 2 authorscited 81
- indexed by OpenAlex1995 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 3 authorscited 69
- indexed by OpenAlex2018 · Ecology and Evolution · 3 authorscited 65
- indexed by OpenAlexcited 63
The central limit theorem for the supercritical branching random walk, and related results
1990 · Stochastic Processes and their Applications · 1 author - indexed by OpenAlex1998 · Behavioral Ecology · 2 authorscited 61
- indexed by OpenAlex2010 · 4 authorscited 59
- indexed by OpenAlex1995 · The Annals of Applied Probability · 1 authorcited 50
- indexed by OpenAlex1997 · The IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications · 1 authorcited 49
- indexed by OpenAlex1998 · Stochastic Processes and their Applications · 1 authorcited 46
- indexed by OpenAlexcited 44
The supercritical Galton-Watson process in varying environments
1992 · Stochastic Processes and their Applications · 2 authors - indexed by OpenAlex1991 · The Annals of Applied Probability · 4 authorscited 41
- indexed by OpenAlexcited 41
Markov renewal processes, counters and repeated sequences in Markov chains
1987 · Advances in Applied Probability · 2 authors