Most cited papers in Probability and Statistical Research
What are the most cited papers in Probability and Statistical Research?
The most cited paper in Probability and Statistical Research is "Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle" (Hirotogu Akaike, 1998), with 18,124 citations. Next come "On the psychology of prediction." (6,292) and "Statistical distance and the geometry of quantum states" (3,236).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 227 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle Hirotogu Akaike · Springer series in statistics | 1998 | 18,124 |
| 2 | On the psychology of prediction. Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Psychological Review | Jul 1973 | 6,292 |
| 3 | Statistical distance and the geometry of quantum states Samuel L. Braunstein, Carlton M. Caves · Physical Review Letters | 30 May 1994 | 3,236 |
| 4 | On the Uniform Convergence of Relative Frequencies of Events to Their Probabilities Vladimir N. Vapnik, Alexey Ya. Chervonenkis | 2015 | 3,197 |
| 5 | Metaprop: a Stata command to perform meta-analysis of binomial data Victoria Nyawira Nyaga, Marc Arbyn, Marc Aerts · Archives of Public Health | 10 Nov 2014 | 2,208 |
| 6 | Brownian motion and stochastic calculus Jan Seidler · Acta Applicandae Mathematicae | Aug 1991 | 2,191 |
| 7 | Pair-copula constructions of multiple dependence Kjersti Aas, Claudia Czado, Arnoldo Frigessi et al. · Insurance Mathematics and Economics | 12 Feb 2007 | 2,098 |
| 8 | Calibration of probabilities: The state of the art to 1980 Sarah Lichtenstein, Baruch Fischhoff, Lawrence D. Phillips · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 30 Apr 1982 | 1,828 |
| 9 | A Generalization of Bayesian Inference Arthur P. Dempster · Studies in fuzziness and soft computing | 21 Jan 2008 | 1,726 |
| 10 | The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences Thomas Gilovich, Robert P. Vallone, Amos Tversky · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1985 | 1,701 |
| 11 | Random numbers certified by Bell’s theorem Stefano Pironio, Antonio Acín, Serge Massar et al. · Nature | Apr 2010 | 1,460 |
| 12 | Truth and Probability Frank Plumpton Ramsey | 2016 | 1,315 |
| 13 | Probability and Measure. François S. Chaghaghi, Patrick Billingsley · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) | 1986 | 1,245 |
| 14 | Comparing Coefficients of Nested Nonlinear Probability Models Ulrich Köhler, Kristian Bernt Karlson, Anders Holm · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Oct 2011 | 1,050 |
| 15 | The Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model Carl Edward Rasmussen | 29 Nov 1999 | 990 |
| 16 | Man as an intuitive statistician. Cameron R. Peterson, Lee Roy Beach · Psychological Bulletin | Jul 1967 | 986 |
| 17 | Numerical Computation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities Alan C. Genz · Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics | Jun 1992 | 969 |
| 18 | Model selection and multi-model inference Andrew R. Liddle, Pia Mukherjee, David Parkinson · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10 Dec 2009 | 911 |
| 19 | Meta-Regression in Stata Roger M. Harbord, Julian P. T. Higgins · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Dec 2008 | 883 |
| 20 | Non-linear dynamics for clinicians: chaos theory, fractals, and complexity at the bedside Ary L. Goldberger · The Lancet | May 1996 | 863 |
| 21 | Measuring Skewness and Kurtosis Richard A. Groeneveld, Glen D. Meeden · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) | Dec 1984 | 832 |
| 22 | Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Methods Craig B. Borkowf, James E. Gentle · Technometrics | Nov 2000 | 807 |
| 23 | Estimating predicted probabilities from logistic regression: different methods correspond to different target populations Clemma Jacobsen Muller, Richard F. MacLehose · International Journal of Epidemiology | 4 Mar 2014 | 772 |
| 24 | Multiple Imputation of Missing Values: Update Patrick J Royston · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Jun 2005 | 759 |
| 25 | The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test. William W. Rozeboom · Psychological Bulletin | Sep 1960 | 743 |
| 26 | Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms of Probability Distributions Joseph Abate, Ward Whitt · INFORMS journal on computing | Feb 1995 | 714 |
| 27 | Real Analysis and Probability. R. Ahmad, R. M. Dudley · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) | 1991 | 705 |
| 28 | The Nature of Laws Michael Tooley · Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Dec 1977 | 680 |
| 29 | The Multivariate Normal Distribution Alan Julian Izenman, Y. L. Tong · Technometrics | Nov 1991 | 669 |
| 30 | Communicating Statistical Information Ulrich Hoffrage, Samuel C. Lindsey, Ralph Hertwig et al. · Science | 22 Dec 2000 | 653 |
| 31 | Foundations of Modern Probability Thomas Mikosch, Olav Kallenberg · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Sep 1998 | 648 |
| 32 | Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology Steven Shapin · Social Studies of Science | Nov 1984 | 632 |
| 33 | An Introduction to the Theory of Stationary Random Functions Akiva M. Yaglom, Gordon Frank Newell · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1963 | 599 |
| 34 | Integral Probability Metrics and Their Generating Classes of Functions Alfred Müller · Advances in Applied Probability | Jun 1997 | 559 |
| 35 | Ockham's Razor and Bayesian Analysis W. H. Jefferys, James O. Berger · American Scientist | Feb 1992 | 546 |
| 36 | Bayes in the sky: Bayesian inference and model selection in cosmology Roberto Trotta | 4 Aug 2013 | 518 |
| 37 | Calibration of Probabilities: The State of the Art Sarah Lichtenstein, Baruch Fischhoff, Lawrence D. Phillips | 1977 | 495 |
| 38 | Mathematics, Statistics, and Teaching George W. Cobb, David S. Moore · American Mathematical Monthly | Nov 1997 | 492 |
| 39 | Stata Tip 87: Interpretation of Interactions in Nonlinear Models Maarten L. Buis · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Jul 2010 | 481 |
| 40 | Metandi: Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Using Hierarchical Logistic Regression Roger M. Harbord, Penny F. Whiting · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Aug 2009 | 472 |
| 41 | The Stationary Bootstrap Dimitris N. Politis, Joseph P. Romano · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 1994 | 468 |
| 42 | Advanced Statistics: Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Statistics with “Difficult” Distributions Jason S. Haukoos, Roger Lewis · Academic Emergency Medicine | Apr 2005 | 437 |
| 43 | An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics Yu. A. Rozanov | 1995 | 436 |
| 44 | Multiple Imputation of Missing Values: Further Update of Ice, with an Emphasis on Categorical Variables Patrick J Royston · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Sep 2009 | 433 |
| 45 | On complex probabilities Giorgio Parisi · Physics Letters B | Nov 1983 | 428 |
| 46 | Estimates for the probability of ruin with special emphasis on the possibility of large claims Paul Embrechts, Noël Veraverbeke · Insurance Mathematics and Economics | 1982 | 414 |
| 47 | Binomial Confidence Intervals Colin R. Blyth, Harold A. Still · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Mar 1983 | 407 |
| 48 | Presentation and content: The use of base rates as a continuous variable. Gerd Gigerenzer, Wolfgang Hell, Hartmut Blank · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance | Aug 1988 | 404 |
| 49 | When did Bayesian inference become "Bayesian"? Stephen E. Fienberg · Bayesian Analysis | Mar 2006 | 404 |
| 50 | PROBABILITY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS J. Th. Runnenburg · Statistica Neerlandica | Jun 1985 | 403 |
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