Most cited papers in Statistics Education and Methodologies
What are the most cited papers in Statistics Education and Methodologies?
The most cited paper in Statistics Education and Methodologies is "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" (Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman, 1974), with 28,737 citations. Next come "A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability" (11,600) and "Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability" (10,112).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 547 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Science | 27 Sep 1974 | 28,737 |
| 2 | A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability Waloddi Weibull · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1951 | 11,600 |
| 3 | Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Cognitive Psychology | Sep 1973 | 10,112 |
| 4 | FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS Norman H. Anderson · Psychology Press eBooks | Jul 2001 | 6,930 |
| 5 | On the psychology of prediction. Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Psychological Review | Jul 1973 | 6,292 |
| 6 | Content Knowledge for Teaching Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Mark N. Hoover, Geoffrey Phelps · Journal of Teacher Education | Nov 2008 | 5,335 |
| 7 | Approximate is Better than “Exact” for Interval Estimation of Binomial Proportions Alan Agresti, Brent A. Coull · The American Statistician | May 1998 | 3,253 |
| 8 | OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences Sebastiaan Mathôt, Daniël Schreij, Jan Theeuwes · Behavior Research Methods | 15 Nov 2011 | 2,766 |
| 9 | Bayes Factors Robert E. Kass, Adrian E. Raftery · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1995 | 2,358 |
| 10 | Science and Statistics George E. P. Box · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 1976 | 2,346 |
| 11 | Observing Interaction: An Introduction to Sequential Analysis Victor L. Willson, Roger A. Bakeman, John Mordechai Gottman · Journal of Educational Statistics | 1988 | 2,311 |
| 12 | Variations of Box Plots Robert McGill, John W. Tukey, Wayne A. Larsen · The American Statistician | Feb 1978 | 2,244 |
| 13 | Advanced nonparametric tests for multiple comparisons in the design of experiments in computational intelligence and data mining: Experimental analysis of power Salvador García, Alberto Fernández, Julián Luengo et al. · Information Sciences | 17 Dec 2009 | 2,239 |
| 14 | Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Education. Holly Smith, George Andrew Ferguson · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Sep 1967 | 2,225 |
| 15 | An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications William Feller, Philip Μ. Morse · Physics Today | Apr 1958 | 2,065 |
| 16 | The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making. Robyn M. Dawes · American Psychologist | Jul 1979 | 2,004 |
| 17 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Peter M. Fayers, Edward R. Tufte · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) | 1990 | 1,953 |
| 18 | Consequences of Failure to Meet Assumptions Underlying the Fixed Effects Analyses of Variance and Covariance Gene V. Glass, Percy D. Peckham, James R. Sanders · Review of Educational Research | Sep 1972 | 1,779 |
| 19 | The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences Thomas Gilovich, Robert P. Vallone, Amos Tversky · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1985 | 1,701 |
| 20 | Unpacking Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Conceptualizing and Measuring Teachers' Topic-Specific Knowledge of Students Heather C. Hill, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, S. Schilling · Journal for Research in Mathematics Education | Jul 2008 | 1,681 |
| 21 | Sample Criteria for Testing Outlying Observations Frank E. Grubbs · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics | Mar 1950 | 1,655 |
| 22 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward Mulrow · Technometrics | Nov 2002 | 1,553 |
| 23 | Simultaneous Statistical Inference David L. Weeks, Rupert G. Miller · Biometrics | Dec 1967 | 1,368 |
| 24 | Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics Gerd Gigerenzer, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Elke Kurz‐Milcke et al. · Gothic.net | Nov 2007 | 1,365 |
| 25 | Building Student Capacity for Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning: An Analysis of Mathematical Tasks Used in Reform Classrooms Mary Kay Stein, Barbara W. Grover, Marjorie A. Henningsen · American Educational Research Journal | Jun 1996 | 1,257 |
| 26 | Probability and Measure. François S. Chaghaghi, Patrick Billingsley · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) | 1986 | 1,245 |
| 27 | Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability M. S. Bartlett · Technometrics | May 1963 | 1,190 |
| 28 | Statistical Thinking in Empirical Enquiry C. J. Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch · International Statistical Review | Dec 1999 | 1,186 |
| 29 | What Are the Odds? A Practical Guide to Computing and Reporting Bayes Factors Andrew F. Jarosz, Jennifer Wiley · The Journal of Problem Solving | 7 Nov 2014 | 1,166 |
| 30 | Mathematical Statistics A Decision Theoretic Approach Gerald S. Rogers · Technometrics | Feb 1968 | 1,165 |
| 31 | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Eugene Paul Wigner · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks | Aug 1990 | 1,153 |
| 32 | The $\chi^2$ Test of Goodness of Fit William G. Cochran · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics | Sep 1952 | 1,106 |
| 33 | An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications Frank E. Grubbs · Technometrics | May 1967 | 1,085 |
| 34 | The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses T. C. Chamberlin · Science | 7 May 1965 | 1,080 |
| 35 | Design Sensitivity: Statistical Power for Experimental Research. Scott R. Eliason, Mark W. Lipsey · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 1991 | 1,052 |
| 36 | Bayesian Versus Orthodox Statistics: Which Side Are You On? Zoltán Dienes · Perspectives on Psychological Science | May 2011 | 996 |
| 37 | Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and the Mathematical Quality of Instruction: An Exploratory Study Heather C. Hill, Merrie Blunk, Charalambos Y. Charalambous et al. · Cognition and Instruction | 26 Sep 2008 | 994 |
| 38 | Adults' Statistical Literacy: Meanings, Components, Responsibilities Iddo Gal · International Statistical Review | Apr 2002 | 900 |
| 39 | BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots Michaela Spitzer, Jan Wildenhain, Juri Rappsilber et al. · Nature Methods | 30 Jan 2014 | 890 |
| 40 | The visual display of quantitative information Stanley P. Azen · Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | Mar 1983 | 883 |
| 41 | How to analyze Likert and other rating scale data Spencer E. Harpe · Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning | 13 Oct 2015 | 879 |
| 42 | Statistical significance testing and cumulative knowledge in psychology: Implications for training of researchers. Frank L. Schmidt · Psychological Methods | Jun 1996 | 838 |
| 43 | Mindless statistics Gerd Gigerenzer · The Journal of Socio-Economics | Nov 2004 | 834 |
| 44 | Statistical Methods for Eliciting Probability Distributions Paul H. Garthwaite, Joseph Born Kadane, Anthony O’Hagan · Journal of the American Statistical Association | 21 May 2005 | 827 |
| 45 | Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm Jaxk H. Reeves, Richard M. Royall · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Sep 1998 | 823 |
| 46 | Making Sense of Graphs: Critical Factors Influencing Comprehension and Instructional Implications Susan N. Friel, Frances R. Curcio, George W. Bright · Journal for Research in Mathematics Education | Mar 2001 | 817 |
| 47 | A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Analysis: Applications to Developmental Research Rens van de Schoot, David E. Kaplan, Jaap J. A. Denissen et al. · Child Development | 11 Oct 2013 | 802 |
| 48 | Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery Terry Speed · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 2006 | 792 |
| 49 | The Theory of Statistical Decision L. J. Savage · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Mar 1951 | 790 |
| 50 | Practical Use of the Information-Theoretic Approach Kenneth P. Burnham, David R. Anderson | 1998 | 787 |
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