Bruce M. Hill

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Bruce M. Hill is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce M. Hill has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Statistics and Probability, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Bruce M. Hill's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (12 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (11 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (9 papers). Bruce M. Hill is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (12 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (11 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (9 papers). Bruce M. Hill collaborates with scholars based in United States. Bruce M. Hill's co-authors include George C. Tiao, George E. P. Box, Ray A. Waller, Harry F. Martz, I. J. Good, Edward E. Leamer, Henry E. Kyburg, William D. Sudderth, David A. Lane and Michael Woodroofe and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Bruce M. Hill

52 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Simple General Approach to Inference About the Tail of ... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1975 1974 1985 500 1000 1.5k
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. A Simple General Approach to Inference About the Tail of a Distribution
    1975 2.0k citations Bruce M. Hill profile →
  2. Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis
    1974 836 citations Bruce M. Hill et al. Technometrics profile →
  3. Bayesian Reliability Analysis.
    1985 528 citations Bruce M. Hill et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce M. Hill United States 23 2.0k 1.6k 1.2k 1.0k 753 59 5.5k
Murray Rosenblatt United States 27 2.1k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 894 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 1.4k 1.8× 67 7.7k
W. D. Ray United Kingdom 35 1.1k 0.6× 1.6k 1.0× 2.1k 1.7× 800 0.8× 397 0.5× 108 7.9k
Peter Whittle United Kingdom 43 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.4× 1.4k 1.4× 487 0.6× 169 9.3k
D. J. Bartholomew United Kingdom 27 1.8k 0.9× 530 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 601 0.8× 63 8.8k
D. A. Darling United States 18 1.8k 0.9× 900 0.6× 539 0.4× 904 0.9× 775 1.0× 41 6.7k
C. C. Heyde Australia 32 2.4k 1.2× 2.4k 1.5× 1.0k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 313 0.4× 187 8.0k
S. Kotz United States 6 3.2k 1.6× 876 0.6× 717 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 1.6k 2.1× 8 7.2k
Edward Greenberg United States 21 1.3k 0.6× 664 0.4× 1.2k 1.0× 892 0.9× 353 0.5× 60 4.7k
Holger Rootzén Sweden 31 1.2k 0.6× 2.5k 1.6× 971 0.8× 605 0.6× 445 0.6× 83 6.1k
Roger B. Nelsen United States 25 2.4k 1.2× 3.2k 2.0× 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 1.0× 741 1.0× 170 7.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1994). Bayesian Forecasting of Economic Time Series. Econometric Theory. 10(3-4). 483–513. 4 indexed citations
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Berliner, L. Mark & Bruce M. Hill. (1988). Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83(403). 772–779. 23 indexed citations
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Berliner, L. Mark & Bruce M. Hill. (1988). Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83(403). 772–772. 7 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1987). The Validity of the Likelihood Principle. The American Statistician. 41(2). 95–100. 6 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1986). A Bayesian Approach to the Nonresponse Problem, Using Covariates a la Freedman: Comment [A Case Study in Nonresponse: Plaintiff vs. California State Board of Equalization]. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 4(1). 125–126.
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1986). Comment: A Bayesian Approach to the Nonresponse Problem, Using Covariates à la Freedman. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 4(1). 125–126.
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1986). Comment: A Bayesian Approach to the Nonresponse Problem, Using Covariates à la Freedman. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 4(1). 125–125.
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1981). Discussion. Technometrics. 23(4). 335–338.
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1980). On finite additivity, non-conglomerability and statistical paradoxes. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 31(1). 39–49. 1 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M., David A. Lane, & William D. Sudderth. (1980). A Strong Law for Some Generalized Urn Processes. The Annals of Probability. 8(2). 102 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M. & Edward E. Leamer. (1980). Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference With Nonexperimental Data.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75(369). 252–252. 213 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1979). Posterior Moments of the Number of Species in a Finite Population and the Posterior Probability of Finding a New Species. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 74(367). 668–673. 25 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1975). Aberrant Behavior of the Likelihood Function in Discrete Cases. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 70(351a). 717–719. 3 indexed citations
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Woodroofe, Michael & Bruce M. Hill. (1975). On Zipf's law. Journal of Applied Probability. 12(3). 425–434. 3 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M. & A. W. F. Edwards. (1973). Likelihood. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 68(342). 487–487. 3 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1970). Zipf's Law and Prior Distributions for the Composition of a Population. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 65(331). 1220–1220. 12 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1970). Zipf's Law and Prior Distributions for the Composition of a Population. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 65(331). 1220–1232. 55 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1968). Posterior Distribution of Percentiles: Bayes' Theorem for Sampling From a Population. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 63(322). 677–691. 85 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M.. (1965). Inference about Variance Components in the One-Way Model. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 60(311). 806–806. 21 indexed citations
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Hill, Bruce M., et al.. (1965). Studies in Subjective Probability.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 60(309). 364–364. 301 indexed citations

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