Donald Ylvisaker

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Donald Ylvisaker is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Ylvisaker has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Statistics and Probability, 12 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 7 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Donald Ylvisaker's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (9 papers), Optimal Experimental Design Methods (8 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (6 papers). Donald Ylvisaker is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (9 papers), Optimal Experimental Design Methods (8 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (6 papers). Donald Ylvisaker collaborates with scholars based in United States. Donald Ylvisaker's co-authors include Leslie M. Moore, M. Johnson, Jerome Sacks, Persi Diaconis, Toby J. Mitchell, Max D. Morris, George J. Knafl, Yashaswini Mittal, Clifford H. Spiegelman and Peter W. M. John and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Donald Ylvisaker

31 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Minimax and maximin distance designs 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 250 500 750 1000
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. Minimax and maximin distance designs
    1990 1.0k citations M. Johnson, Leslie M. Moore et al. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald Ylvisaker United States 17 990 931 788 777 476 32 2.6k
Kai‐Tai Fang Hong Kong 23 580 0.6× 735 0.8× 490 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 503 1.1× 90 2.9k
Bruce W. Schmeiser United States 24 307 0.3× 1.1k 1.2× 697 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 535 1.1× 117 2.7k
Bruce Jay Collings United States 13 455 0.5× 284 0.3× 549 0.7× 391 0.5× 409 0.9× 21 2.6k
K.-T. Fang 4 443 0.4× 414 0.4× 335 0.4× 371 0.5× 246 0.5× 4 1.4k
Agnes M. Herzberg United Kingdom 15 796 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 548 0.7× 647 0.8× 307 0.6× 67 2.3k
Ramon E. Moore United States 15 2.2k 2.3× 747 0.8× 918 1.2× 672 0.9× 903 1.9× 31 4.8k
William I. Notz United States 22 1.7k 1.7× 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.4× 281 0.4× 672 1.4× 48 3.4k
Holger Dette Germany 37 1.8k 1.8× 2.5k 2.7× 1.1k 1.3× 2.7k 3.5× 502 1.1× 394 5.7k
Shanti S. Gupta United States 31 182 0.2× 1.1k 1.1× 969 1.2× 2.1k 2.7× 767 1.6× 152 3.5k
C. G. Khatri India 22 376 0.4× 353 0.4× 165 0.2× 1.2k 1.6× 473 1.0× 110 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Donald Ylvisaker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Ylvisaker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Ylvisaker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kiefer, Daniel, Jerome Sacks, & Donald Ylvisaker. (2016). Statistics, Civil Rights and The US Supreme Court: A Cautionary Tale. Significance. 13(2). 30–33. 1 indexed citations
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Ylvisaker, Donald. (2016). Jan de Leeuw and Statistics at UCLA. Journal of Statistical Software. 73(9).
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Sacks, Jerome & Donald Ylvisaker. (2012). After 50+ Years in Statistics, An Exchange. Statistical Science. 27(2). 1 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Toby J., Max D. Morris, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1994). Asymptotically optimum experimental designs for prediction of deterministic functions given derivative information. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 41(3). 377–389. 8 indexed citations
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Morris, Max D., Toby J. Mitchell, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1993). Bayesian Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments: Use of Derivatives in Surface Prediction. Technometrics. 35(3). 243–255. 216 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Toby J., Max D. Morris, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1990). Existence of smoothed stationary processes on an interval. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 35(1). 109–119. 15 indexed citations
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Johnson, M., Leslie M. Moore, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1990). Minimax and maximin distance designs. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 26(2). 131–148. 1033 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, M. & Donald Ylvisaker. (1989). [Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments]: Comment. Statistical Science. 4(4). 2 indexed citations
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Knafl, George J., Jerome Sacks, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1985). Confidence Bands for Regression Functions. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 80(391). 683–683. 19 indexed citations
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Knafl, George J., Jerome Sacks, Clifford H. Spiegelman, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1984). Nonparametric Calibration. Technometrics. 26(3). 233–241. 11 indexed citations
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Knafl, George J., Clifford H. Spiegelman, Jerome Sacks, & Donald Ylvisaker. (1984). Nonparametric Calibration. Technometrics. 26(3). 233–233. 9 indexed citations
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Sacks, Jerome & Donald Ylvisaker. (1982). $L$- and $R$-Estimation and the Minimax Property. The Annals of Statistics. 10(2). 4 indexed citations
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Sacks, Jerome & Donald Ylvisaker. (1981). Variance estimation for approximately linear models. Series Statistics. 12(2). 147–162. 5 indexed citations
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Sacks, Jerome & Donald Ylvisaker. (1981). Asymptotically Optimum Kernels for Density Estimation at a Point. The Annals of Statistics. 9(2). 54 indexed citations
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Sacks, Jerome & Donald Ylvisaker. (1978). Linear Estimation for Approximately Linear Models. The Annals of Statistics. 6(5). 85 indexed citations
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Ylvisaker, Donald. (1977). Test Resistance. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 72(359). 551–556. 24 indexed citations
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Ylvisaker, Donald. (1977). Test Resistance. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 72(359). 551–551. 14 indexed citations
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Mittal, Yashaswini & Donald Ylvisaker. (1975). Limit distributions for the maxima of stationary Gaussian processes. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 3(1). 1–18. 60 indexed citations
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Ylvisaker, Donald. (1968). A Note on the Absence of Tangencies in Gaussian Sample Paths. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39(1). 261–262. 33 indexed citations
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Sacks, Jerome & Donald Ylvisaker. (1966). Designs for Regression Problems with Correlated Errors. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 37(1). 66–89. 119 indexed citations

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