Alan Stuart

16.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
78 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Alan Stuart is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Stuart has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Statistics and Probability, 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan Stuart's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (13 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (7 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (5 papers). Alan Stuart is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (13 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (7 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (5 papers). Alan Stuart collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Alan Stuart's co-authors include Harry M. Markowitz, Sidney Siegel, Keith Ord, M. G. Kendall, Aa, G. S. Watson, J. K. Ord, Steven F. Arnold, H. M. Blalock and F. Garwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Alan Stuart

69 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investm... 1955 2026 1978 2002 1959 1957 1995 1984 1979 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investments
    1959 3.7k citations Alan Stuart et al. profile →
  2. Non-Parametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences.
    1957 3.1k citations Alan Stuart et al. Economica profile →
  3. Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics.
    1995 2.0k citations Alan Stuart et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  4. The Advanced Theory of Statistics.
    1984 677 citations M. G. Kendall, Alan Stuart et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  5. The Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2: Inference and Relationship
    1979 499 citations M. G. Kendall, Alan Stuart profile →
  6. A TEST FOR HOMOGENEITY OF THE MARGINAL DISTRIBUTIONS IN A TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATION
    1955 356 citations Alan Stuart Biometrika profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Stuart United Kingdom 29 2.4k 2.2k 2.0k 1.6k 964 78 12.5k
J. Durbin United Kingdom 45 2.8k 1.2× 5.0k 2.3× 1.3k 0.7× 3.0k 1.8× 1.1k 1.2× 89 14.6k
Dean W. Wichern United States 23 637 0.3× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.7× 47 13.8k
Chris Chatfield United Kingdom 43 1.2k 0.5× 2.6k 1.2× 2.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 1.8k 1.9× 94 14.1k
Michael D. Geurts United States 10 1.4k 0.6× 2.8k 1.3× 3.0k 1.5× 1.3k 0.8× 2.4k 2.5× 29 15.5k
David A. Freedman United States 45 1.0k 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 3.4k 2.1× 2.2k 2.3× 168 11.1k
T. W. Anderson United States 49 2.6k 1.1× 4.2k 1.9× 2.3k 1.2× 8.0k 5.0× 3.8k 3.9× 158 25.4k
George C. Tiao United States 55 2.8k 1.2× 4.1k 1.9× 2.5k 1.3× 4.1k 2.5× 1.9k 1.9× 149 17.3k
D. R. Cox United Kingdom 46 1.2k 0.5× 2.4k 1.1× 2.3k 1.2× 7.1k 4.4× 2.9k 3.0× 127 23.7k
B. Efron United States 20 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 4.9k 3.0× 2.7k 2.8× 31 23.1k
Gwilym M. Jenkins United Kingdom 23 2.0k 0.8× 4.3k 2.0× 4.8k 2.4× 1.9k 1.2× 4.1k 4.3× 38 28.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Stuart

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Stuart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Stuart

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kendall, M. G., Alan Stuart, J. K. Ord, & Steven F. Arnold. (1999). Classical inference and the linear model. J. Wiley eBooks. 37 indexed citations
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Kendall, M. G., Alan Stuart, J. K. Ord, & Steven F. Arnold. (1999). Classical inference and relationship. 17 indexed citations
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Middleton, David, M. G. Kendall, & Alan Stuart. (1985). Statistics: Theory and Practice. Selected Papers by Sir Maurice Kendall. The Mathematical Gazette. 69(447). 65–65.
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Stuart, Alan & M. G. Kendall. (1979). Inference and relationship. 199 indexed citations
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Kendall, M. G. & Alan Stuart. (1979). The Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2: Inference and Relationship. 8(4). 335–41. 499 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stuart, Alan & B. L. van der Waerden. (1970). Mathematical Statistics.. Economica. 37(148). 437–437. 87 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1969). Reduced Mean-Square-Error Estimation of σ p in Normal Samples. The American Statistician. 23(4). 27–28. 8 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan & M. N. Murthy. (1969). Sampling Theory and Methods.. Population Studies. 23(1). 148–148. 18 indexed citations
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Kendall, M. G. & Alan Stuart. (1966). Design and analysis, and time-series. 68 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1962). Gamma-Distributed Products of Independent Random Variables. Biometrika. 49(3/4). 564–564. 7 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1958). 129. Note: Iterative Solutions of Likelihood Equations. Biometrics. 14(1). 128–128. 4 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan, J. Aitchison, & J. A. C. Brown. (1957). The Lognormal Distribution with Special Reference to Its Uses in Economics.. Economica. 24(95). 280–280. 30 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1957). The Efficiency of the Records Test for Trend in Normal Regression. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 19(1). 149–153. 3 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan, et al.. (1956). Pools and the Punter.. Economica. 23(89). 89–89. 1 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1956). The Efficiencies of Tests of Randomness Against Normal Regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 51(274). 285–285. 4 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1955). A Test for Homogeneity of the Marginal Distributions in a Two-Way Classification. Biometrika. 42(3/4). 412–412. 56 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1954). A Simple Presentation of Optimum Sampling Results. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 16(2). 239–241. 28 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1954). Asymptotic Relative Efficiencies of Distribution-Free Tests of Randomness Against Normal Alternatives. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 49(265). 147–147. 2 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alan. (1954). The asymptotic relative efficiencies of tests and the derivatives of their power functions. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. 1954(2). 163–169. 1 indexed citations

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