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Thomas E. Nichols is an American statistician.He is Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at the Nuffield Department of Population Health of the University of Oxford, where he is also affiliated with the Big Data Institute.
Thomas or Tom Nichols may refer to: Thomas Nichols (pirate) (fl. 1717–1718), pirate in the Caribbean and off the American east coast; Thomas Reid Nichols (born 1958), American baseball player; Tom Nichols (footballer) (born 1993), English footballer; Tom Nichols (academic) (born 1960), American academic; Thomas E. Nichols, American statistician
Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership.
Nichols is a five-time Jeopardy! champion, winning during regular season play in 1994. Nichols initially lost his fifth game, but was invited back due to "a clue discrepancy." [7] He later participated in the 1994 Tournament of Champions and the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, losing in the quarterfinals [8] and the first round, [9 ...
It includes the founders of statistics and others. It includes some 17th- and 18th-century mathematicians and polymaths whose work is regarded as influential in shaping the later discipline of statistics. Also included are various actuaries, economists, and demographers known for providing leadership in applying statistics to their fields.
In The Death of Expertise, Nichols condemns what he describes as the many forces trying to undermine the authority of experts in the United States. He blames trends in higher education (such as focus on self-esteem and tolerance of narcissism leading to grade inflation and over-confidence in one's own abilities), the Internet, and the explosion of media options for the anti-expertise and anti ...
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Thomas Nicholls (boxer) (1931–2021), British boxer Tom Nicholls (born 1992), Australian rules footballer Thomas David Nicholls (1870–1931), US Representative from Pennsylvania