Derek S. Young

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Derek S. Young is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek S. Young has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Statistics and Probability, 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Derek S. Young's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (16 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (15 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (15 papers). Derek S. Young is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (16 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (15 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (15 papers). Derek S. Young collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and France. Derek S. Young's co-authors include David R. Hunter, Didier Chauveau, Tatiana Benaglia, Thomas Mathew, David J. Hunter, Kimberly F. Sellers, Yixuan Zou, Xi Chen, Ricardo Nilo‐Poyanco and Hilal Özcebe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Statistics in Medicine and Journal of Statistical Software.

In The Last Decade

Derek S. Young

45 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

mixtools: AnRPackage for Analyzing Finite Mixture Models 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 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. mixtools: AnRPackage for Analyzing Finite Mixture Models
    2009 871 citations Tatiana Benaglia, Didier Chauveau et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Derek S. Young United States 14 322 270 259 171 133 49 1.5k
Dirk Eddelbuettel United States 13 422 1.3× 496 1.8× 305 1.2× 148 0.9× 125 0.9× 33 1.9k
Didier Chauveau France 14 331 1.0× 403 1.5× 322 1.2× 170 1.0× 130 1.0× 30 1.5k
Benjamin Hofner Germany 25 413 1.3× 228 0.8× 357 1.4× 192 1.1× 82 0.6× 59 1.8k
Gerhard Tutz Germany 9 417 1.3× 372 1.4× 162 0.6× 216 1.3× 203 1.5× 16 2.6k
Fabian Scheipl Germany 19 497 1.5× 198 0.7× 163 0.6× 119 0.7× 108 0.8× 43 1.8k
Romain François France 5 205 0.6× 235 0.9× 185 0.7× 112 0.7× 66 0.5× 11 1.2k
Anja Struyf Belgium 21 356 1.1× 187 0.7× 123 0.5× 115 0.7× 128 1.0× 26 1.9k
Rebecca Killick United Kingdom 15 273 0.8× 369 1.4× 215 0.8× 308 1.8× 501 3.8× 60 2.9k
Benoît Liquet France 18 265 0.8× 171 0.6× 190 0.7× 127 0.7× 106 0.8× 90 1.4k
Andrew A. Neath United States 11 550 1.7× 392 1.5× 125 0.5× 86 0.5× 125 0.9× 31 2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek S. Young

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2025). Some estimation and inference considerations for the zero-inflated discrete Weibull distribution. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 1–22.
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Amrhein, Timothy J., et al.. (2024). Diagnostic Yield of Decubitus CT Myelography for Detection of CSF-Venous Fistulas. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 45(10). 1597–1604. 8 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2023). Approximate tolerance intervals for nonparametric regression models. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 36(1). 212–239.
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Parker, Peter A., et al.. (2023). An empirical semiparametric one‐sided confidence bound for lower quantiles of distributions with positive support. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 40(4). 1618–1635. 1 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2023). Finite mixtures of mean-parameterized Conway–Maxwell–Poisson models. Statistical Papers. 65(3). 1469–1492. 1 indexed citations
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Lamarche, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Conditional Quantile Functions for Zero-Inflated Longitudinal Count Data. Econometrics and Statistics. 31. 49–65.
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Ünlü, Hande Konşuk, et al.. (2020). A mixture model with Poisson and zero-truncated Poisson components to analyze road traffic accidents in Turkey. Journal of Applied Statistics. 49(4). 1003–1017. 10 indexed citations
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Zou, Yixuan & Derek S. Young. (2020). Improving coverage probabilities for parametric tolerance intervals via bootstrap calibration. Statistics in Medicine. 39(16). 2152–2166. 6 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2020). Zero‐inflatedmodeling partII:Zero‐inflatedmodels for complex data structures. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics. 14(2). 5 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2020). Zero‐inflatedmodeling part I: Traditionalzero‐inflatedcount regression models, their applications, and computational tools. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics. 14(1). 17 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2019). Influence of Adrenal Venous Sampling on Management in Patients with Primary Aldosteronism Independent of Lateralization on Cross-Sectional Imaging. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 229(1). 116–124. 12 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2019). Finite mixture-of-gamma distributions: estimation, inference, and model-based clustering. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification. 13(4). 1053–1082. 16 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2018). Approximate confidence and tolerance limits for the discrete Pareto distribution for characterizing extremes in count data. Statistica Neerlandica. 73(1). 4–21. 1 indexed citations
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Mitelman, Serge A., Monte S. Buchsbaum, Derek S. Young, et al.. (2017). Increased white matter metabolic rates in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 12(5). 1290–1305. 18 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S.. (2014). Tolerance Intervals for Hypergeometric and Negative Hypergeometric Variables. Sankhya B. 77(1). 114–140. 4 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S., et al.. (2014). Choosing a coverage probability for forecasting the incidence of cancer. Statistics in Medicine. 33(23). 4104–4115. 2 indexed citations
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Hunter, David R. & Derek S. Young. (2011). Semiparametric mixtures of regressions. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 24(1). 19–38. 42 indexed citations
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Young, Derek S.. (2010). tolerance: An R Package for Estimating Tolerance Intervals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11 indexed citations
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Benaglia, Tatiana, Didier Chauveau, David R. Hunter, & Derek S. Young. (2009). mixtools: An R Package for Analyzing Mixture Models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 45 indexed citations
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Benaglia, Tatiana, Didier Chauveau, David J. Hunter, & Derek S. Young. (2009). mixtools: An R package for analyzing finite mixture models. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 31 indexed citations

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