Benjamin Epstein

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Epstein is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Epstein has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Statistics and Probability, 8 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 4 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Epstein's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (14 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (6 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (4 papers). Benjamin Epstein is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (14 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (6 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (4 papers). Benjamin Epstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Benjamin Epstein's co-authors include Matthew J. Sobel, Gustav Herdan, Cinna Lomnitz, Milton Sobel, Menachem Berg, José Tiago de Fonseca Oliveira, Carl‐Erik Särndal, Peter Kubat, W. R. Buckland and Kirsten G. Locke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Epstein

43 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Truncated Life Tests in the Exponential Case 1954 2026 1978 2002 1954 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Truncated Life Tests in the Exponential Case
    1954 516 citations Benjamin Epstein The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Epstein United States 20 1.3k 763 467 277 186 48 2.1k
C. D. Lai New Zealand 21 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 547 1.2× 315 1.1× 261 1.4× 77 2.4k
Z. W. Birnbaum United States 21 1.6k 1.2× 980 1.3× 580 1.2× 250 0.9× 291 1.6× 38 2.5k
J. Leroy Folks United States 16 1.0k 0.8× 431 0.6× 247 0.5× 201 0.7× 364 2.0× 30 2.4k
E. J. Gumbel United States 18 953 0.8× 409 0.5× 145 0.3× 310 1.1× 266 1.4× 40 2.5k
Max Engelhardt United States 25 1.2k 1.0× 827 1.1× 400 0.9× 241 0.9× 191 1.0× 90 2.3k
Raj S. Chhikara United States 17 873 0.7× 396 0.5× 228 0.5× 141 0.5× 349 1.9× 51 1.8k
Maurice C. Bryson United States 15 745 0.6× 428 0.6× 256 0.5× 195 0.7× 122 0.7× 31 1.3k
Nicholas Anthony John Hastings United Kingdom 19 363 0.3× 111 0.1× 247 0.5× 175 0.6× 175 0.9× 49 1.6k
James Pickands United States 15 829 0.7× 450 0.6× 85 0.2× 402 1.5× 308 1.7× 21 3.9k
Terry King United States 7 651 0.5× 251 0.3× 67 0.1× 153 0.6× 241 1.3× 8 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Epstein

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Epstein

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhou, Chenming, et al.. (2024). Measurement of Ambient Magnetic Field Noise for Through-the-Earth (TTE) Communications and Historical Comparisons. IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. 66(3). 720–727. 1 indexed citations
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Oliveira, José Tiago de Fonseca, et al.. (1983). Some Recent Advances in Statistics.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician). 32(4). 443–443. 36 indexed citations
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Kubat, Peter & Benjamin Epstein. (1980). Estimation of Quantiles of Location-Scale Distributions Based on Two or Three Order Statistics. Technometrics. 22(4). 575–581. 13 indexed citations
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Kubat, Peter & Benjamin Epstein. (1980). Estimation of Quantiles of Location-Scale Distributions Based on Two or Three Order Statistics. Technometrics. 22(4). 575–575. 3 indexed citations
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Berg, Menachem & Benjamin Epstein. (1979). A note on a modified block replacement policy for units with increasing marginal running costs. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 26(1). 157–160. 8 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin, et al.. (1974). Behavior of vehicles along roads for which passing is not permitted. Transportation Research. 8(6). 517–522. 2 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1967). Bacterial Extinction Time as an Extreme Value Phenomenon. Biometrics. 23(4). 835–835. 6 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin & Cinna Lomnitz. (1966). A Model for the Occurrence of Large Earthquakes. Nature. 211(5052). 954–956. 149 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin, et al.. (1966). Mathematical Theory of Reliability.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 61(313). 268–268. 153 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1960). Estimation of the Parameters of Two Parameter Exponential Distributions from Censored Samples. Technometrics. 2(3). 403–403. 6 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1960). Tests for the Validity of the Assumption that the Underlying Distribution of Life is Exponential Part I. Technometrics. 2(1). 83–101. 95 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1960). Tests for the Validity of the Assumption that the Underlying Distribution of Life is Exponential: Part II. Technometrics. 2(2). 167–183. 53 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin & Milton Sobel. (1955). Sequential Life Tests in the Exponential Case. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 26(1). 82–93. 87 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1955). Comparison of Some Non-Parametric Tests Against Normal Alternatives with an Application to Life Testing. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 50(271). 894–894. 5 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1954). Truncated Life Tests in the Exponential Case. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 25(3). 555–564. 516 indexed citations breakdown →
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Epstein, Benjamin & Matthew J. Sobel. (1954). Some Theorems Relevant to Life Testing from an Exponential Distribution. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 25(2). 373–381. 237 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin. (1954). Tables for the Distribution of the Number of Exceedances. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 25(4). 762–768. 32 indexed citations
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Epstein, Benjamin, et al.. (1953). Some Tests Based on Ordered Observations from two Exponential Populations. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 24(3). 458–466. 54 indexed citations

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