Alexander Gordon

24.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Alexander Gordon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Gordon has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Statistics and Probability and 3 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Alexander Gordon's work include Gene expression and cancer classification (8 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (5 papers) and Optimal Experimental Design Methods (3 papers). Alexander Gordon is often cited by papers focused on Gene expression and cancer classification (8 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (5 papers) and Optimal Experimental Design Methods (3 papers). Alexander Gordon collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Alexander Gordon's co-authors include Richard A. Olshen, Jerome H. Friedman, Leo Breiman, Andrei Yakovlev, Xing Qiu, Galina Glazko, Lev B. Klebanov, Arcady Mushegian, Robert D. Frisina and G. B. Forbes and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, Biometrics and BMC Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Gordon

13 papers receiving 16.8k citations

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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.

Classification and Regression Trees.

1984 17.6k citations Alexander Gordon, Leo Breiman et al. Biometrics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Gordon United States	9	5.6k	2.3k	1.6k	1.6k	1.5k	15	18.1k
John Van Ryzin United States	22	5.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	70	17.9k
Tom Fawcett United States	24	7.1k 1.3×	2.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	704 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	38	20.2k
David J. Hand United Kingdom	66	9.2k 1.6×	3.3k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	699 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	369	24.0k
J. A. Hartigan United States	35	6.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	2.9k 1.8×	909 0.6×	3.3k 2.2×	83	22.2k
Charles J. Stone United States	36	7.7k 1.4×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	85	27.1k
Kurt Hornik Austria	61	11.9k 2.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	3.1k 2.0×	269	39.7k
Ron Kohavi United States	36	9.6k 1.7×	4.2k 1.8×	2.2k 1.4×	645 0.4×	3.6k 2.4×	66	21.8k
Ian T. Jolliffe United Kingdom	39	4.4k 0.8×	709 0.3×	2.6k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	3.9k 2.5×	115	29.4k
J. Friedman United States	25	5.1k 0.9×	915 0.4×	2.6k 1.6×	655 0.4×	2.3k 1.5×	49	21.3k
Vipin Kumar United States	53	14.0k 2.5×	4.9k 2.1×	1.3k 0.8×	713 0.4×	2.7k 1.7×	304	25.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Gordon

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Gordon, Alexander, et al.. (2011). The water delivery system affects the rate of weight gain in C57BL/6J mice during the first week after weaning.. PubMed. 50(1). 37–40. 3 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alexander, et al.. (2008). Balancing type one and two errors in multiple testing for differential expression of genes. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 53(5). 1622–1629. 5 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alexander, Galina Glazko, Xing Qiu, & Andrei Yakovlev. (2007). Control of the mean number of false discoveries, Bonferroni and stability of multiple testing. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 1(1). 121 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alexander, et al.. (2007). AC++Program for the Cramér-von Mises Two-Sample Test. Journal of Statistical Software. 17(8). 10 indexed citations

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Qiu, Xing, et al.. (2006). Assessing stability of gene selection in microarray data analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 50–50. 59 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alexander, et al.. (2006). The -Version of the Cramér-von Mises Test for Two-Sample Comparisons in Microarray Data Analysis. PubMed. 2006(1). 85769–85769. 7 indexed citations

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Klebanov, Lev B., Alexander Gordon, Yongshuang Xiao, Hartmut Land, & Andrei Yakovlev. (2005). A permutation test motivated by microarray data analysis. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 50(12). 3619–3628. 26 indexed citations

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Glazko, Galina, Alexander Gordon, & Arcady Mushegian. (2005). The choice of optimal distance measure in genome-wide datasets. Bioinformatics. 21(Suppl_3). iii3–iii11. 26 indexed citations

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Frisina, Robert D., et al.. (2004). Multivariate search for differentially expressed gene combinations. BMC Bioinformatics. 5(1). 164–164. 38 indexed citations

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Figotin, Alexander, et al.. (2002). Occupancy Numbers in Testing Random Number Generators. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 62(6). 1980–2011.

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Figotin, Alexander, et al.. (2001). Generalized Quantum Statistics and Testing of Randomizers with and without Asymptotic Assumptions. Monte Carlo Methods and Applications. 7(1-2). 167–176. 1 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alexander. (1987). A Review of Hierarchical Classification. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 150(2). 119–119. 245 indexed citations

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Klish, W. J., G. B. Forbes, Alexander Gordon, & W. Cochran. (1984). New Method for the Estimation of Lean Body Mass in Infants (EMME Instrument). Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 3(2). 199–204. 1 indexed citations

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Klish, W. J., G. B. Forbes, Alexander Gordon, & W. Cochran. (1984). New Method for the Estimation of Lean Body Mass in Infants (EMME Instrument). Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 3(2). 199–204. 27 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alexander, et al.. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees.. Biometrics. 40(3). 874–874. 17556 indexed citations breakdown →

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