J. D. Esary

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

J. D. Esary is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Statistics and Probability and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, J. D. Esary has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 12 papers in Statistics and Probability and 8 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in J. D. Esary's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (13 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (11 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (7 papers). J. D. Esary is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (13 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (11 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (7 papers). J. D. Esary collaborates with scholars based in United States. J. D. Esary's co-authors include Frank Proschan, Albert W. Marshall, David W. Walkup, Z. W. Birnbaum and Sam C. Saunders and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

J. D. Esary

22 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Association of Random Variables, with Applications 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 250 500 750
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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. Association of Random Variables, with Applications
    1967 792 citations J. D. Esary, Frank Proschan et al. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
J. D. Esary United States 15 1.1k 903 786 551 381 22 2.2k
Thomas H. Savits United States 22 1.5k 1.4× 663 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 579 1.1× 240 0.6× 80 2.4k
Henry W. Block United States 23 1.7k 1.5× 751 0.8× 894 1.1× 626 1.1× 267 0.7× 66 2.3k
Mark Brown United States 18 763 0.7× 348 0.4× 595 0.8× 236 0.4× 115 0.3× 58 1.3k
Perwez Shahabuddin United States 26 519 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 262 0.3× 180 0.3× 453 1.2× 61 2.7k
Subhash C. Kochar India 33 2.8k 2.5× 951 1.1× 664 0.8× 1.4k 2.6× 449 1.2× 130 3.2k
Ushio Sumita United States 22 568 0.5× 327 0.4× 476 0.6× 251 0.5× 109 0.3× 118 1.6k
Jayaram Sethuraman United States 16 583 0.5× 226 0.3× 446 0.6× 342 0.6× 110 0.3× 54 1.1k
Erwin Straub Switzerland 3 532 0.5× 298 0.3× 426 0.5× 326 0.6× 81 0.2× 5 1.0k
Markos V. Koutras Greece 26 1.2k 1.1× 505 0.6× 677 0.9× 749 1.4× 59 0.2× 107 2.4k
Fabio Spizzichino Italy 19 747 0.7× 407 0.5× 308 0.4× 345 0.6× 282 0.7× 81 1.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1979). Multivariate Distributions with Increasing Hazard Rate Average. The Annals of Probability. 7(2). 24 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D.. (1977). The Effect of Modeling Depth on Reliability Prediction for Systems Subject to a Phased Mission Profile. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D., et al.. (1975). Properties of an approximate hazard transform. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 22(1). 41–53. 2 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1974). Multivariate Distributions with Exponential Minimums. The Annals of Statistics. 2(1). 37 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1973). Families of components, and systems, exposed to a compound poisson damage process. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 10 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1973). Shock Models and Wear Processes. The Annals of Probability. 1(4). 445 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Frank Proschan. (1972). Relationships Among Some Concepts of Bivariate Dependence. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 43(2). 651–655. 71 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Frank Proschan. (1970). A Reliability Bound for Systems of Maintained, Interdependent Components. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 65(329). 329–338. 84 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D., Albert W. Marshall, & Frank Proschan. (1970). Some Reliability Applications of the Hazard Transform. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 18(4). 849–860. 33 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1970). Coherent Life Functions. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 18(4). 810–814. 60 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D., Frank Proschan, & David W. Walkup. (1967). Association of Random Variables, with Applications. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 38(5). 1466–1474. 792 indexed citations breakdown →
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Birnbaum, Z. W., J. D. Esary, & Albert W. Marshall. (1966). A Stochastic Characterization of Wear-out for Components and Systems. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 37(4). 816–825. 76 indexed citations
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Birnbaum, Z. W. & J. D. Esary. (1965). Modules of Coherent Binary Systems. Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 13(2). 444–462. 79 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1964). System Structure and the Existence of a System Life. Technometrics. 6(4). 459–462. 9 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Albert W. Marshall. (1964). System Structure and the Existence of a System Life. Technometrics. 6(4). 459–459. 2 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Frank Proschan. (1963). Relationship between System Failure Rate and Component Failure Rates. Technometrics. 5(2). 183–183. 10 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Frank Proschan. (1963). Relationship Between System Failure Rate and Component Failure Rates. Technometrics. 5(2). 183–189. 46 indexed citations
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Esary, J. D. & Frank Proschan. (1963). Coherent Structures of Non-Identical Components. Technometrics. 5(2). 191–191. 17 indexed citations
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Birnbaum, Z. W., J. D. Esary, & Sam C. Saunders. (1961). Multi-Component Systems and Structures and Their Reliability. Technometrics. 3(1). 55–77. 199 indexed citations
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Birnbaum, Z. W., J. D. Esary, & Sam C. Saunders. (1961). Multi-Component Systems and Structures and Their Reliability. Technometrics. 3(1). 55–55. 77 indexed citations

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