Frank Proschan

22.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
175 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Frank Proschan is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Proschan has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Statistics and Probability, 58 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 42 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Frank Proschan's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (87 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (58 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (31 papers). Frank Proschan is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (87 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (58 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (31 papers). Frank Proschan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Saudi Arabia. Frank Proschan's co-authors include Richard E. Barlow, Donald R. Smith, Kumar Joag‐Dev, J. D. Esary, Philip J. Boland, Erwin Straub, Emad El-Neweihi, Larry C. Hunter, David W. Walkup and Myles Hollander and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Frank Proschan

170 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing-Probab... 1966 2026 1986 2006 1977 1966 1983 1976 1967 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing-Probability Models
    1977 2.7k citations Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan et al. profile →
  2. Mathematical Theory of Reliability
    1966 2.0k citations Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan et al. profile →
  3. Negative Association of Random Variables with Applications
    1983 993 citations Frank Proschan et al. profile →
  4. Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing Probability Models
    1976 991 citations Richard E. Barlow, Frank Proschan et al. profile →
  5. Association of Random Variables, with Applications
    1967 792 citations Frank Proschan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frank Proschan United States 50 8.2k 6.1k 4.2k 4.0k 2.5k 175 15.2k
Richard E. Barlow United States 33 4.5k 0.6× 4.4k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 2.0k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 96 10.0k
Moshe Shaked United States 35 4.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.3× 1.9k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 353 0.1× 170 7.5k
J. George Shanthikumar United States 50 3.4k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 1.7k 0.4× 3.8k 0.9× 621 0.2× 323 12.2k
Albert W. Marshall United States 34 4.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.2× 1.5k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 361 0.1× 82 11.1k
N. Balakrishnan Canada 67 19.5k 2.4× 5.9k 1.0× 12.1k 2.9× 4.0k 1.0× 681 0.3× 1.0k 24.8k
Sheldon M. Ross United States 39 1.8k 0.2× 1.8k 0.3× 1.2k 0.3× 2.0k 0.5× 887 0.4× 212 13.0k
Peter W. Glynn United States 52 2.7k 0.3× 423 0.1× 1.0k 0.2× 4.3k 1.1× 305 0.1× 349 11.0k
Ward Whitt United States 75 3.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.2× 746 0.2× 7.2k 1.8× 164 0.1× 411 22.0k
Barry C. Arnold United States 35 4.9k 0.6× 549 0.1× 1.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.5× 88 0.0× 244 11.1k
Nozer D. Singpurwalla United States 38 2.5k 0.3× 2.2k 0.4× 1.7k 0.4× 690 0.2× 1.4k 0.6× 178 5.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Boland, Philip J., Emad El-Neweihi, & Frank Proschan. (1994). Schur properties of convolutions of exponential and geometric random variables. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 48(1). 157–167. 41 indexed citations
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Boland, Philip J., Emad El-Neweihi, & Frank Proschan. (1992). Stochastic order for redundancy allocations in series and parallel systems. Advances in Applied Probability. 24(1). 161–171. 86 indexed citations
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Chan, W.L., et al.. (1987). Stochastic rearrangement inequalities. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 23(2). 257–275. 3 indexed citations
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Lynch, James, et al.. (1983). Dispersive ordering results. Advances in Applied Probability. 15(4). 889–891. 10 indexed citations
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Lynch, James, et al.. (1983). Dispersive ordering results. Advances in Applied Probability. 15(4). 889–891. 3 indexed citations
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Pereira, Carlos Alberto de Bragança, et al.. (1982). The influence of the sample on the posterior distribution. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 11(16). 1757–1768. 10 indexed citations
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El-Neweihi, Emad & Frank Proschan. (1981). Unified treatment of some inequalities among ratios of means. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 81(3). 388–388. 6 indexed citations
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El-Neweihi, Emad & Frank Proschan. (1981). Unified Treatment of Some Inequalities Among Ratios of Means. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 81(3). 388–388. 1 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank, et al.. (1981). Bounds on Differences of Order Statistics. The American Statistician. 35(1). 46–47. 9 indexed citations
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El-Neweihi, Emad & Frank Proschan. (1979). Unified Treatment of Inequalities of the Weierstrass Product Type. American Mathematical Monthly. 86(3). 206–208. 7 indexed citations
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León, Ramón V. & Frank Proschan. (1979). An inequality for convex functions involving G-majorization. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 69(2). 603–606. 1 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank, et al.. (1978). Statistische Theorie der Zuverlässigkeit. 3 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank & Pasquale Sullo. (1976). Estimating the Parameters of a Multivariate Exponential Distribution. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 71(354). 465–472. 45 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank, et al.. (1976). Multivariate Life Table Analysis,. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank & Jayaram Sethuraman. (1976). Stochastic comparisons of order statistics from heterogeneous populations, with applications in reliability. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 6(4). 608–616. 104 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E. & Frank Proschan. (1975). Importance of system components and fault tree events. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 3(2). 153–173. 214 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank & R. J. Serfling. (1974). Reliability and biometry : statistical analysis of lifelength : papers. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank, et al.. (1974). Stochastic Comparison of Sums, Using Majorization.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Pledger, Gordon & Frank Proschan. (1973). Stochastic comparisons of random processes, with applications in reliability. Journal of Applied Probability. 10(3). 572–585. 11 indexed citations
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Proschan, Frank & Pasquale Sullo. (1973). Estimating the Parameters of a Bivariate Exponential Distribution in Several Sampling Situations.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 7 indexed citations

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