Fred Spiring

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Fred Spiring is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Spiring has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 9 papers in Statistics and Probability and 4 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Fred Spiring's work include Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (14 papers), Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation (8 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (6 papers). Fred Spiring is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (14 papers), Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation (8 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (6 papers). Fred Spiring collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Hong Kong and United States. Fred Spiring's co-authors include Bartholomew P.K. Leung, Smiley W. Cheng, Lai K. Chan, James C. Fu, Hansheng Xie, Ewen C.D. Todd, Robert N. Rodriguez, Donald J. Wheeler, Samuel Kotz and Gérard Lachapelle and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Technometrics and International Journal of Production Economics.

In The Last Decade

Fred Spiring

25 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Introduction to Statistical Quality Control 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
    2007 635 citations Fred Spiring profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fred Spiring Canada 14 903 396 294 249 248 29 1.4k
Robert Plante United States 21 735 0.8× 385 1.0× 300 1.0× 269 1.1× 342 1.4× 68 1.4k
Christina M. Mastrangelo United States 17 827 0.9× 417 1.1× 115 0.4× 318 1.3× 178 0.7× 56 1.3k
Susan L. Albin United States 18 736 0.8× 397 1.0× 284 1.0× 261 1.0× 266 1.1× 42 1.4k
Anatoly Lisnianski Israel 25 1.8k 2.0× 640 1.6× 182 0.6× 308 1.2× 147 0.6× 61 3.6k
Murat Caner Testik Türkiye 19 593 0.7× 347 0.9× 95 0.3× 170 0.7× 270 1.1× 48 1.1k
Luca Podofillini Switzerland 25 1.2k 1.3× 150 0.4× 203 0.7× 217 0.9× 85 0.3× 56 2.0k
Kenneth E. Case United States 17 658 0.7× 209 0.5× 184 0.6× 107 0.4× 311 1.3× 52 1.1k
Arnljot Høyland United States 8 710 0.8× 308 0.8× 101 0.3× 248 1.0× 73 0.3× 11 1.7k
Sergio Fichera Italy 23 519 0.6× 214 0.5× 154 0.5× 163 0.7× 624 2.5× 71 1.3k
Thomas J. Lorenzen United States 10 1.2k 1.4× 320 0.8× 847 2.9× 115 0.5× 535 2.2× 23 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Spiring

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Spiring

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spiring, Fred. (2015). Investigating Gender and Gender-Based Violence in Jamaica. 1 indexed citations
2.
Spiring, Fred. (2014). Investigating Gender Violence in Jamaica. Violence and Victims. 29(6). 1047–1076.
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Spiring, Fred. (2011). The Refined Positive Definite and Unimodal Regions for the Gram-Charlier and Edgeworth Series Expansion. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2011. 1–18. 5 indexed citations
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Cheng, Smiley W., Bartholomew P.K. Leung, & Fred Spiring. (2006). Assessing Process Capability: A Case Study. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management. 3(2). 191–206. 3 indexed citations
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Leung, Bartholomew P.K. & Fred Spiring. (2004). Some Properties of the Family of Inverted Probability Loss Functions. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management. 1(1). 125–147. 30 indexed citations
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Spiring, Fred, et al.. (2003). A Bibliography of Process Capability Papers. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 19(5). 445–460. 127 indexed citations
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Fu, James C., Fred Spiring, & Hansheng Xie. (2002). On the average run lengths of quality control schemes using a Markov chain approach. Statistics & Probability Letters. 56(4). 369–380. 49 indexed citations
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Kotz, Samuel, Norman L. Johnson, Norma F. Hubele, et al.. (2002). Process Capability Indices - A Review, 1992-2000 (With Subsequent Discussions and Response). 34. 16 indexed citations
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Spiring, Fred, et al.. (2002). Discussion. Journal of Quality Technology. 34(1). 23–27. 4 indexed citations
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Leung, Bartholomew P.K. & Fred Spiring. (2002). The inverted beta loss function: properties and applications. IIE Transactions. 34(12). 1101–1109. 29 indexed citations
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Spiring, Fred, et al.. (1998). A General Class of Loss Functions with Industrial Applications. Journal of Quality Technology. 30(2). 152–162. 77 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Robert N., et al.. (1997). Some Perspectives and Challenges for Control Chart Methods. Journal of Quality Technology. 29(2). 122–127. 21 indexed citations
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Spiring, Fred. (1993). Essential Statistics. Journal of Quality Technology. 25(1). 71–72.
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Spiring, Fred. (1993). The reflected normal loss function. Canadian Journal of Statistics. 21(3). 321–330. 101 indexed citations
15.
Spiring, Fred. (1993). Handbook of Quality Tools: The Japanese Approach. Journal of Quality Technology. 25(3). 222–223. 1 indexed citations
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Chan, Lai K., et al.. (1991). A mulvariate measure of process Capability. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 11(1). 1–6. 80 indexed citations
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Spiring, Fred. (1991). Assessing Process Capability in the Presence of Systematic Assignable Cause. Journal of Quality Technology. 23(2). 125–134. 30 indexed citations
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Spiring, Fred, et al.. (1990). Extension of the Wu statistic with applications. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 10(1). 63–69. 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Smiley W. & Fred Spiring. (1987). A Test to Identify the Uniform Distribution, with Applications to Probability Plotting and Other Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. R-36(1). 98–105. 6 indexed citations
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Todd, Ewen C.D., et al.. (1986). Donairs (Gyros) - Potential Hazards and Control. Journal of Food Protection. 49(5). 369–377. 21 indexed citations

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