Iain L. MacDonald

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

About

Iain L. MacDonald is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain L. MacDonald has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Statistics and Probability, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Iain L. MacDonald's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (5 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (4 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (4 papers). Iain L. MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (5 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (4 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (4 papers). Iain L. MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Germany and United Kingdom. Iain L. MacDonald's co-authors include Walter Zucchini, Roland Langrock, Shane P. Pederson, Simon Folkard, Philip Tucker, David Raubenheimer, Leonard Lerer, Melvin Varughese, Robert Kozak and David H. Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Technometrics and Biometrics.

In The Last Decade

Iain L. MacDonald

26 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

  1. Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R
    2009 474 citations Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Iain L. MacDonald South Africa 12 441 345 282 225 159 26 1.7k
Dirk Eddelbuettel United States 13 496 1.1× 422 1.2× 148 0.5× 70 0.3× 201 1.3× 33 1.9k
Gerhard Tutz Germany 9 372 0.8× 417 1.2× 216 0.8× 43 0.2× 185 1.2× 16 2.6k
Andrew A. Neath United States 11 392 0.9× 550 1.6× 86 0.3× 83 0.4× 177 1.1× 31 2.3k
Scott D. Grimshaw United States 14 311 0.7× 394 1.1× 72 0.3× 219 1.0× 240 1.5× 33 2.2k
Anders Brix United Kingdom 14 416 0.9× 536 1.6× 164 0.6× 148 0.7× 395 2.5× 23 2.8k
S. Fotopoulos United States 22 442 1.0× 397 1.2× 249 0.9× 174 0.8× 132 0.8× 123 2.2k
Chris P. Tsokos United States 20 345 0.8× 644 1.9× 165 0.6× 207 0.9× 108 0.7× 201 2.6k
D. J. Best Australia 21 460 1.0× 1.1k 3.1× 104 0.4× 169 0.8× 138 0.9× 120 2.9k
Anja Struyf Belgium 21 187 0.4× 356 1.0× 115 0.4× 166 0.7× 323 2.0× 26 1.9k
Huiyan Sang United States 19 387 0.9× 329 1.0× 231 0.8× 128 0.6× 506 3.2× 54 2.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iain L. MacDonald

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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MacDonald, Iain L., et al.. (2023). Continuous-time Markov-chain models for reaction systems: fast and slow processes. Reaction Kinetics Mechanisms and Catalysis. 136(4). 1757–1773. 2 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L.. (2023). Simple examples of continuous-time Markov-chain models for reactions. Reaction Kinetics Mechanisms and Catalysis. 136(1). 1–11. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L.. (2021). Is EM really necessary here? Examples where it seems simpler not to use EM. AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis. 105(4). 629–647. 4 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L., et al.. (2020). Fitting a reversible Markov chain by maximum likelihood: Converting an awkwardly constrained optimization problem to an unconstrained one. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 561. 125182–125182. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L.. (2020). Rejoinder: Fitting a folded normal distribution without EM. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 14(4). 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L.. (2019). A coarse-grained Markov chain is a hidden Markov model. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 541. 123661–123661. 2 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L., et al.. (2018). A Time-Series Model for Underdispersed or Overdispersed Counts. The American Statistician. 74(4). 317–328. 8 indexed citations
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Varughese, Melvin, et al.. (2017). Sequential quantiles via Hermite series density estimation. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 11(1). 9 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L., et al.. (2015). A simple route to maximum-likelihood estimates of two-locus recombination fractions under inequality restrictions. Journal of Genetics. 94(3). 479–481. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L., et al.. (2015). Even More Direct Calculation of the Variance of a Maximum Penalized-Likelihood Estimator. The American Statistician. 70(1). 114–118. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L., et al.. (2014). Comments : EM-based likelihood inference for some lifetime distributions based on left truncated and right censored data and associated model discrimination. 48(2). 187–190. 1 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L.. (2014). Does Newton–Raphson really fail?. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 23(3). 308–311. 25 indexed citations
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Kruger, Ryan G., et al.. (2012). Nonlinear serial dependence in share returns on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 14(2). 64–84. 2 indexed citations
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Zucchini, Walter & Iain L. MacDonald. (2009). Hidden Markov Models for Time Series. 316 indexed citations
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Zucchini, Walter & Iain L. MacDonald. (2009). Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R. TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University). 474 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zucchini, Walter, David Raubenheimer, & Iain L. MacDonald. (2007). Modeling Time Series of Animal Behavior by Means of a Latent‐State Model with Feedback. Biometrics. 64(3). 807–815. 41 indexed citations
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Tucker, Philip, Simon Folkard, & Iain L. MacDonald. (2003). Rest breaks and accident risk. The Lancet. 361(9358). 680–680. 128 indexed citations
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Cohen, David H., Iain L. MacDonald, & Robert Kozak. (2001). THE JAPANESE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR FINISHED BUILDING PRODUCTS: IN TRANSITION. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 20(5). 546–7. 2 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L. & David Raubenheimer. (1995). Hidden Markov Models and Animal Behaviour. Biometrical Journal. 37(6). 701–712. 27 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Iain L. & Leonard Lerer. (1994). A Time-Series Analysis of Trends in Firearm-Related Homicide and Suicide. International Journal of Epidemiology. 23(1). 66–72. 11 indexed citations

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