B. L. Welch

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

B. L. Welch is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, B. L. Welch has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Statistics and Probability, 2 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 1 paper in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in B. L. Welch's work include Statistics Education and Methodologies (3 papers), Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (3 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (2 papers). B. L. Welch is often cited by papers focused on Statistics Education and Methodologies (3 papers), Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (3 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (2 papers). B. L. Welch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. B. L. Welch's co-authors include Alexander M. Mood, Franklin A. Graybill, H. W. Peers, Siegfried Kasper, Howard J. Hoffman, John P. Docherty, Michael Terman, Norman E. Rosenthal, Steven D. Targum and Leora N. Rosen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology).

In The Last Decade

B. L. Welch

20 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

ON THE COMPARISON OF SEVERAL MEAN VALUES: AN ALTERNATIVE ... 1951 2026 1976 2001 1951 1964 250 500 750 1000
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. ON THE COMPARISON OF SEVERAL MEAN VALUES: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH
    1951 1.1k citations B. L. Welch Biometrika profile →
  2. Introduction to the Theory of Statistics.
    1964 381 citations B. L. Welch, Alexander M. Mood et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) profile →

Peers

B. L. Welch
Donald F. Morrison United States
M. J. R. Healy United Kingdom
Kenneth W. Wachter United States
Henry Scheffé United States
Robert J. Beaver United States
Potter C. Chang United States
Frank E. Grubbs United States
K. A. Brownlee United States
F. H. C. Marriott United Kingdom
Zbyněk Šidák Slovakia
Donald F. Morrison United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by B. L. Welch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. L. Welch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of B. L. Welch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of B. L. Welch based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with B. L. Welch. B. L. Welch is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rosen, Leora N., Steven D. Targum, Michael Terman, et al.. (1990). Prevalence of seasonal affective disorder at four latitudes. Psychiatry Research. 31(2). 131–144. 385 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L.. (1970). Statistics--A Vocational or a Cultural Study?. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 133(4). 531–531. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Norman L. & B. L. Welch. (1965). The distribution of the coefficient of variation; comment on a criticism made by Koopmans, Owen and Rosenblatt. Biometrika. 52(1-2). 303–303. 2 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L.. (1965). On Comparisons between Confidence Point Procedures in the Case of a Single Parameter. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 27(1). 1–8. 21 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., Alexander M. Mood, & Franklin A. Graybill. (1964). Introduction to the Theory of Statistics.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 127(1). 124–124. 381 indexed citations breakdown →
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Welch, B. L. & H. W. Peers. (1963). On Formulae for Confidence Points Based on Integrals of Weighted Likelihoods. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 25(2). 318–329. 225 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., et al.. (1963). The Foundations of Statistical Inference.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 126(1). 134–134. 189 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L. & R. L. Plackett. (1961). Principles of Regression Analysis.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 124(2). 251–251. 67 indexed citations
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Simpson, Jim A. & B. L. Welch. (1960). Table of the bounds of the probability integral when the first four moments are given. Biometrika. 47(3-4). 399–404. 9 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., M. G. Kendall, & A. Stuart. (1959). The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Vol. I--Distribution Theory.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 122(1). 99–99. 49 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., George J. Resnikoff, & G. J. Lieberman. (1958). Tables of the Non-Central t-Distribution.. Biometrika. 45(3/4). 596–596. 47 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L.. (1958). ‘Student’ and Small Sample Theory. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 53(284). 777–788. 13 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., George J. Resnikoff, & Gerald J. Lieberman. (1957). Tables of the Non-Central t-Distribution.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 52(280). 588–588. 10 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L.. (1956). Note on Some Criticisms Made by Sir Ronald Fisher. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 18(2). 297–302. 16 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., et al.. (1956). Further critical values for the two-means problem. Biometrika. 43(1-2). 203–205. 31 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L.. (1956). On Linear Combinations of Several Variances. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 51(273). 132–148. 56 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., D. V. Lindley, & J. C. P. Miller. (1954). Cambridge Elementary Statistical Tables.. Biometrika. 41(1/2). 285–285. 45 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., et al.. (1954). Introduction to the Theory of Statistics.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 49(266). 378–378. 19 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L., et al.. (1954). ON THE COMPARISON OF TWO MEANS: FURTHER DISCUSSION OF ITERATIVE METHODS FOR CALCULATING TABLES. Biometrika. 41(3-4). 361–374. 14 indexed citations
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Welch, B. L.. (1951). ON THE COMPARISON OF SEVERAL MEAN VALUES: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH. Biometrika. 38(3-4). 330–336. 1076 indexed citations breakdown →

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