C. L. Mallows

10.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
94 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

C. L. Mallows is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, C. L. Mallows has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 20 papers in Statistics and Probability and 15 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in C. L. Mallows's work include Coding theory and cryptography (9 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (8 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (7 papers). C. L. Mallows is often cited by papers focused on Coding theory and cryptography (9 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (8 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (7 papers). C. L. Mallows collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. C. L. Mallows's co-authors include Edward B. Fowlkes, David Andrews, F.M. Reza, B. W. Stuck, J. Chambers, N. J. A. Sloane, Siddhartha R. Dalal, R. Duncan Luce, Ludovic Lebart and Michael Greenacre and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

C. L. Mallows

85 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Method for Comparing Two Hierarchical Clusterings 1957 2026 1980 2003 1983 1974 1976 1964 1957 250 500 750
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 Method for Comparing Two Hierarchical Clusterings
    1983 913 citations C. L. Mallows et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  2. Scale Mixtures of Normal Distributions
    1974 735 citations C. L. Mallows et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) profile →
  3. A Method for Simulating Stable Random Variables
    1976 709 citations J. Chambers, C. L. Mallows et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  4. An Introduction to Information Theory.
    1964 524 citations C. L. Mallows et al. profile →
  5. NON-NULL RANKING MODELS. I
    1957 423 citations C. L. Mallows 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
C. L. Mallows United States 34 2.1k 1.4k 653 634 601 94 6.6k
A. Rényi Hungary 31 1.8k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 520 0.8× 831 1.3× 516 0.9× 84 7.6k
Wassily Hoeffding United States 19 2.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 647 1.0× 1.1k 1.8× 383 0.6× 30 9.4k
A. N. Kolmogorov Russia 23 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 790 1.2× 876 1.4× 387 0.6× 88 7.7k
Robb J. Muirhead United States 16 1.6k 0.8× 3.3k 2.3× 728 1.1× 699 1.1× 433 0.7× 36 8.5k
Herman Chernoff United States 34 2.1k 1.0× 2.6k 1.8× 653 1.0× 1.7k 2.7× 695 1.2× 91 8.4k
Jerzy Neyman United States 32 1.3k 0.6× 1.8k 1.3× 707 1.1× 725 1.1× 352 0.6× 140 7.4k
J. Laurie Snell United States 23 1.8k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 816 1.2× 893 1.4× 503 0.8× 77 8.5k
George Casella United States 15 1.8k 0.9× 2.1k 1.5× 503 0.8× 650 1.0× 291 0.5× 37 7.0k
David A. Freedman United States 45 2.2k 1.1× 3.4k 2.4× 1.4k 2.1× 1.0k 1.7× 327 0.5× 168 11.1k
George Marsaglia United States 36 1.5k 0.7× 802 0.6× 229 0.4× 387 0.6× 1.1k 1.9× 87 6.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mallows, C. L., et al.. (2008). Optimal Stopping With Exact Confidence on Remaining Defects. Technometrics. 50(3). 397–406. 3 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L., David R. Brillinger, Andreas Buja, et al.. (2006). Tukey's Paper After 40 Years, With Discussion. Technometrics. 48. 4 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L., et al.. (1997). Applying Design of Experiments to Software Testing. International Conference on Software Engineering. 205–215. 80 indexed citations
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Hwang, F. K. & C. L. Mallows. (1995). Enumerating nested and consecutive partitions. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 70(2). 323–333. 15 indexed citations
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Bickel, Peter J. & C. L. Mallows. (1988). A Note on Unbiased Bayes Estimates. The American Statistician. 42(2). 132–134. 4 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L. & L. A. Shepp. (1985). Enumerating pairs of permutations with the same up-down form. Discrete Mathematics. 54(3). 301–311. 5 indexed citations
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Chung, Fan, Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham, & C. L. Mallows. (1981). On the permanents of complements of the direct sum of identity matrices. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 2(2). 121–137. 9 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1980). Some Theory of Nonlinear Smoothers. The Annals of Statistics. 8(4). 84 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1979). Baxter permutations rise again. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 27(3). 394–396. 23 indexed citations
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Chambers, J., C. L. Mallows, & B. W. Stuck. (1976). A Method for Simulating Stable Random Variables. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 71(354). 340–344. 709 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mallows, C. L., Andrew Odlyzko, & N. J. A. Sloane. (1975). Upper bounds for modular forms, lattices, and codes. Journal of Algebra. 36(1). 68–76. 45 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L. & N. J. A. Sloane. (1974). Weight enumerators of self-orthogonal codes. Discrete Mathematics. 9(4). 391–400. 11 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1973). Some Comments on C p . Technometrics. 15(4). 661–675. 299 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L. & N. J. A. Sloane. (1973). An upper bound for self-dual codes. Information and Control. 22(2). 188–200. 172 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L. & Kenneth W. Wachter. (1972). Valency enumeration of rooted plane trees. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. 13(4). 472–476. 4 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L. & Donald H. Richter. (1969). Inequalities of Chebyshev Type Involving Conditional Expectations. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 40(6). 1922–1932. 37 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1968). An Inequality in Constrained Random Variables. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39(3). 1080–1082. 3 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1961). Latent vectors of random symmetric matrices. Biometrika. 48(1-2). 133–149. 30 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1960). On the moments of small samples. 11(2). 119–121. 1 indexed citations
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Mallows, C. L.. (1956). Generalizations of Tchebycheff’s Inequalities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 18(2). 139–168. 26 indexed citations

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