Henry W. Block

3.4k total citations
66 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Henry W. Block is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Henry W. Block has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Statistics and Probability, 27 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 22 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Henry W. Block's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (43 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (22 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (20 papers). Henry W. Block is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (43 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (22 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (20 papers). Henry W. Block collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Brazil. Henry W. Block's co-authors include Thomas H. Savits, Asit P. Basu, Wagner de Souza Borges, Harshinder Singh, Moshe Shaked, Naftali A. Langberg, Richard E. Barlow, Harry Joe, Yulin Li and William S. Griffith and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Operations Research and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Henry W. Block

64 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Henry W. Block United States 23 1.7k 894 751 626 344 66 2.3k
Thomas H. Savits United States 22 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 663 0.9× 579 0.9× 477 1.4× 80 2.4k
J. D. Esary United States 15 1.1k 0.7× 786 0.9× 903 1.2× 551 0.9× 324 0.9× 22 2.2k
Subhash C. Kochar India 33 2.8k 1.7× 664 0.7× 951 1.3× 1.4k 2.3× 94 0.3× 130 3.2k
Mark Brown United States 18 763 0.5× 595 0.7× 348 0.5× 236 0.4× 283 0.8× 58 1.3k
Serkan Eryılmaz Türkiye 36 2.4k 1.4× 2.7k 3.0× 524 0.7× 2.0k 3.1× 784 2.3× 211 3.9k
Majid Asadi Iran 23 1.5k 0.9× 889 1.0× 248 0.3× 936 1.5× 180 0.5× 119 1.9k
Taizhong Hu China 21 863 0.5× 242 0.3× 622 0.8× 426 0.7× 78 0.2× 122 1.3k
Fabio Spizzichino Italy 19 747 0.4× 308 0.3× 407 0.5× 345 0.6× 60 0.2× 81 1.1k
Peng Zhao China 22 1.3k 0.8× 588 0.7× 357 0.5× 840 1.3× 116 0.3× 102 1.5k
Erwin Straub Switzerland 3 532 0.3× 426 0.5× 298 0.4× 326 0.5× 168 0.5× 5 1.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, & Thomas H. Savits. (2015). The limiting failure rate for a convolution of life distributions. Journal of Applied Probability. 52(3). 894–898. 5 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, & Thomas H. Savits. (2015). The limiting failure rate for a convolution of life distributions. Journal of Applied Probability. 52(3). 894–898. 7 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, & Thomas H. Savits. (2014). The limiting failure rate for a convolution of gamma distributions. Statistics & Probability Letters. 94. 176–180. 7 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, Thomas H. Savits, & Jie Wang. (2010). Continuous Mixtures of Exponentials and IFR Gammas Having Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates. Journal of Applied Probability. 47(4). 899–907. 1 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Yulin Li, Thomas H. Savits, & Jie Wang. (2008). Continuous Mixtures with Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates. Journal of Applied Probability. 45(1). 260–270. 2 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Yulin Li, Thomas H. Savits, & Jie Wang. (2008). Continuous Mixtures with Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rates. Journal of Applied Probability. 45(1). 260–270. 11 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Yulin Li, & Thomas H. Savits. (2003). PRESERVATION OF PROPERTIES UNDER MIXTURE. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. 17(2). 205–212. 19 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Yulin Li, & Thomas H. Savits. (2003). Initial and final behaviour of failure rate functions for mixtures and systems. Journal of Applied Probability. 40(3). 721–740. 69 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W. & Harry Joe. (1997). Tail Behavior of the Failure Rate Functions of Mixtures. Lifetime Data Analysis. 3(3). 269–288. 59 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, & Thomas H. Savits. (1993). Repair replacement policies. Journal of Applied Probability. 30(1). 194–206. 43 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Timothy M. Costigan, & Allan R. Sampson. (1993). Optimal second-order product probability bounds. Journal of Applied Probability. 30(3). 675–691. 6 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, & Thomas H. Savits. (1990). Maintenance comparisons: block policies. Journal of Applied Probability. 27(3). 649–657. 4 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., et al.. (1990). Setwise independence for some dependence structures. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 32(1). 103–119. 6 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Naftali A. Langberg, & Thomas H. Savits. (1990). Maintenance comparisons: block policies. Journal of Applied Probability. 27(3). 649–657. 17 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., William S. Griffith, & Thomas H. Savits. (1989). L-superadditive structure functions. Advances in Applied Probability. 21(4). 919–929. 31 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W. & Allan R. Sampson. (1988). Conditionally ordered distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 27(1). 91–104. 19 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., Wagner de Souza Borges, & Thomas H. Savits. (1985). Age-dependent minimal repair. Journal of Applied Probability. 22(2). 370–385. 352 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W., et al.. (1977). Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing: Probability Models.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 72(357). 227–227. 99 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W. & Asit P. Basu. (1974). A Continuous, Bivariate Exponential Extension. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 69(348). 1031–1037. 206 indexed citations
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Block, Henry W. & Harold J. Larson. (1972). Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistical Inference.. American Mathematical Monthly. 79(9). 1046–1046. 20 indexed citations

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