E. W. Stacy

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

E. W. Stacy is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, E. W. Stacy has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Statistics and Probability and 2 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in E. W. Stacy's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (3 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (2 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (2 papers). E. W. Stacy is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (3 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (2 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (2 papers). E. W. Stacy collaborates with scholars based in United States. E. W. Stacy's co-authors include G. Arthur Mihram, Irving Biederman, Arnold L. Glass, Jan C. Rabinowitz, Erwin M. Segal and E. B. Eichelberger and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, Technometrics and IBM Journal of Research and Development.

In The Last Decade

E. W. Stacy

9 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Generalization of the Gamma Distribution

1962 937 citations E. W. Stacy The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
E. W. Stacy United States	7	568	332	273	202	183	9	1.7k
P. A. W. Lewis United Kingdom	4	390 0.7×	371 1.1×	211 0.8×	245 1.2×	45 0.2×	5	2.0k
Theodore G. Birdsall United States	23	145 0.3×	1.2k 3.5×	107 0.4×	380 1.9×	134 0.7×	63	3.4k
Jim Kay United Kingdom	21	351 0.6×	513 1.5×	51 0.2×	342 1.7×	252 1.4×	52	1.7k
James P. Egan United States	14	135 0.2×	799 2.4×	102 0.4×	462 2.3×	142 0.8×	36	2.2k
D. A. Sprott Canada	17	736 1.3×	167 0.5×	162 0.6×	273 1.4×	17 0.1×	79	1.5k
Benjamin Kedem United States	25	405 0.7×	75 0.2×	87 0.3×	387 1.9×	93 0.5×	98	2.0k
Ritei Shibata Japan	14	891 1.6×	42 0.1×	172 0.6×	504 2.5×	80 0.4×	32	2.1k
C. E. M. Pearce Australia	26	149 0.3×	552 1.7×	332 1.2×	176 0.9×	60 0.3×	149	3.7k
Rainer von Sachs Belgium	23	332 0.6×	166 0.5×	71 0.3×	218 1.1×	434 2.4×	81	1.9k
Chong Gu United States	23	1.0k 1.8×	31 0.1×	166 0.6×	442 2.2×	143 0.8×	48	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of E. W. Stacy

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All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Segal, Erwin M. & E. W. Stacy. (1975). Rule-governed behavior as a psychological process.. American Psychologist. 30(5). 541–552. 6 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving & E. W. Stacy. (1974). Stimulus probability and stimulus set size in memory scanning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 102(6). 1100–1107. 22 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving, Jan C. Rabinowitz, Arnold L. Glass, & E. W. Stacy. (1974). On the information extracted from a glance at a scene.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 103(3). 597–600. 194 indexed citations

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Stacy, E. W.. (1973). Quasimaximum Likelihood Estimators for Two-parameter Gamma Distributions. IBM Journal of Research and Development. 17(2). 115–124. 20 indexed citations

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Biederman, Irving, Arnold L. Glass, & E. W. Stacy. (1973). Searching for objects in real-world scenes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 97(1). 22–27. 190 indexed citations

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Eichelberger, E. B., et al.. (1968). Method for Estimation and Optimization of Printer Speed Based on Character Usage Statistics. IBM Journal of Research and Development. 12(2). 130–139. 1 indexed citations

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Stacy, E. W. & G. Arthur Mihram. (1965). Parameter Estimation for a Generalized Gamma Distribution. Technometrics. 7(3). 349–358. 214 indexed citations

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Stacy, E. W. & G. Arthur Mihram. (1965). Parameter Estimation for a Generalized Gamma Distribution. Technometrics. 7(3). 349–349. 81 indexed citations

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Stacy, E. W.. (1962). A Generalization of the Gamma Distribution. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 33(3). 1187–1192. 937 indexed citations breakdown →

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