David A. Freedman

18.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
168 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

David A. Freedman is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Freedman has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Statistics and Probability, 31 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 20 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in David A. Freedman's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (23 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (15 papers) and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (14 papers). David A. Freedman is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (23 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (15 papers) and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (14 papers). David A. Freedman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Poland. David A. Freedman's co-authors include Persi Diaconis, Peter J. Bickel, William Feller, Stephen C. Peters, David A. Lane, Lester E. Dubins, R. J. Serfling, Richard A. Berk, Jasjeet S. Sekhon and David P. Lane and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David A. Freedman

159 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Some Asymptotic Theory for the Bootstrap

1981 1.0k citations David A. Freedman et al. The Annals of Statistics profile →
On the histogram as a density estimator:L 2 theory

1981 1.0k citations David A. Freedman, Persi Diaconis Probability Theory and Related Fields profile →
An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications

1967 951 citations David A. Freedman et al. profile →
Statistical Models

2009 608 citations David A. Freedman Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Freedman United States	45	3.4k	2.2k	1.4k	1.0k	1.0k	168	11.1k
M. S. Bartlett United Kingdom	39	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	977 0.9×	481 0.5×	119	10.4k
P. A. P. Moran Australia	36	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	727 0.5×	938 0.9×	654 0.6×	151	13.2k
Richard L. Tweedie Australia	40	4.8k 1.4×	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.9×	150	24.4k
Bernard W. Silverman United Kingdom	45	4.5k 1.3×	2.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	808 0.8×	690 0.7×	104	15.6k
I. J. Good United States	52	3.0k 0.9×	4.1k 1.9×	1.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	510 0.5×	403	16.0k
Leonard J. Savage United States	27	1.6k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	2.4k 1.7×	2.1k 2.0×	736 0.7×	56	10.4k
Peter Hall Australia	63	5.7k 1.7×	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 2.5×	1.7k 1.7×	3.2k 3.1×	430	17.0k
Charles J. Stone United States	36	4.9k 1.5×	7.7k 3.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	85	27.1k
Peter Whittle United Kingdom	43	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	169	9.3k
Peter J. Huber United States	26	7.2k 2.1×	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	70	19.7k

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Kaye, David H. & David A. Freedman. (2011). Reference Guide on Statistics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

Freedman, David A., David Collier, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, & Philip B. Stark. (2009). Statistical Models and Causal Inference. SSRN Electronic Journal. 18 indexed citations

Freedman, David A.. (2009). Statistical Models and Causal Inference. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 38 indexed citations

Freedman, David A. & Diana B. Petitti. (2005). Discussion on "Statistical Issues Arising in the Women's Health Initiative". Biometrics. 61(4). 918–920. 2 indexed citations

Eaton, Morris L. & David A. Freedman. (2004). Dutch book against some `objective' priors. Bernoulli. 10(5). 10 indexed citations

Freedman, David A.. (1994). Adjusting the U.S. Census of 1990: Loss Functions.. Evaluation Review. 18(3). 2 indexed citations

Freedman, David A. & Jim Pitman. (1990). A measure which is singular and uniformly locally uniform. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 108(2). 371–381.

Diaconis, Persi & David A. Freedman. (1987). A dozen de Finetti-style results in search of a theory. UC Berkeley. 23(2). 397–423. 117 indexed citations

Freedman, David A. & Stephen C. Peters. (1984). Bootstrapping a Regression Equation: Some Empirical Results. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 79(385). 97–106. 299 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A. & David A. Lane. (1983). A Nonstochastic Interpretation of Reported Significance Levels. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 1(4). 292–298. 297 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A. & Persi Diaconis. (1981). On the maximum deviation between the histogram and the underlying density. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 58(2). 139–167. 24 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A. & David A. Lane. (1981). The empirical distribution of the fourier coefficients of a sequence of independent, identically distributed long-tailed random variables. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 58(1). 21–39. 8 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A. & David A. Lane. (1980). The Empirical Distribution of Fourier Coefficients. The Annals of Statistics. 8(6). 30 indexed citations

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Diaconis, Persi & David A. Freedman. (1979). On Rounding Percentages. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 74(366a). 359–364. 27 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A.. (1975). Congenital and Perinatal Sensory Deprivations: Their Effect on the Capacity to Experience Affect. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 44(1). 62–80. 5 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A., et al.. (1973). In Support of SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. : A Critical Analysis of the Parameters of the Economic Relationship Between an Issuer of Securities and the Securities Purchaser. University of Miami law review. 27(3). 407. 1 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A.. (1967). A Remark On Sequential Discrimination. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 38(6). 1666–1670. 3 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A.. (1963). An Arcsine Law for Markov Chains. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 14(4). 680–680. 1 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A.. (1962). Mixtures of Markov Processes. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 33(1). 114–118. 18 indexed citations

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Freedman, David A.. (1962). Invariants Under Mixing which Generalize de Finetti's Theorem. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 33(3). 916–923. 44 indexed citations

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