J. Wolfowitz

16.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
89 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

J. Wolfowitz is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Wolfowitz has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Statistics and Probability, 15 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in J. Wolfowitz's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (16 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (8 papers). J. Wolfowitz is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (16 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (8 papers). J. Wolfowitz collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. J. Wolfowitz's co-authors include J. Kiefer, A. Dvoretzky, Alexander M. Mood, Abraham Wald, Lionel Weiss, I. J. Good, Mark Kac, Rudolf Ahlswede, J. K. Omura and Thomas Berger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

J. Wolfowitz

82 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Stochastic Estimation of the Maximum of a Regression Func... 1951 2026 1976 2001 1952 1956 1956 1960 1959 400 800 1.2k
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. Stochastic Estimation of the Maximum of a Regression Function
    1952 1.3k citations J. Kiefer, J. Wolfowitz The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →
  2. Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator in the Presence of Infinitely Many Incidental Parameters
    1956 659 citations J. Kiefer, J. Wolfowitz The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →
  3. Asymptotic Minimax Character of the Sample Distribution Function and of the Classical Multinomial Estimator
    1956 551 citations A. Dvoretzky, J. Kiefer et al. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →
  4. The Equivalence of Two Extremum Problems
    1960 533 citations J. Kiefer, J. Wolfowitz Canadian Journal of Mathematics profile →
  5. Optimum Designs in Regression Problems
    1959 511 citations J. Kiefer, J. Wolfowitz The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →
  6. Introduction to the Theory of Statistics.
    1951 431 citations J. Wolfowitz 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
J. Wolfowitz United States 32 2.1k 2.0k 1.7k 1.3k 1.2k 89 7.1k
Patrick Billingsley United States 23 1.8k 0.8× 3.3k 1.6× 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 805 0.7× 42 11.8k
J. Kiefer United States 40 4.3k 2.0× 3.0k 1.5× 1.8k 1.1× 2.3k 1.8× 585 0.5× 83 9.3k
J. L. Doob United States 19 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 561 0.5× 48 9.8k
Herbert Robbins United States 35 4.3k 2.0× 2.9k 1.4× 5.0k 3.0× 898 0.7× 2.2k 1.9× 108 12.6k
Peter Whittle United Kingdom 43 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 739 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 169 9.3k
Herman Chernoff United States 34 1.7k 0.8× 2.6k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 1.0k 0.8× 816 0.7× 91 8.4k
David Blackwell United States 28 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 713 0.6× 715 0.6× 69 6.6k
E. Seneta Australia 39 1.4k 0.7× 2.3k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 909 0.8× 291 9.3k
Harold J. Kushner United States 43 2.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 2.8k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 2.3k 2.0× 216 11.6k
C. C. Heyde Australia 32 1.9k 0.9× 2.4k 1.2× 1.0k 0.6× 417 0.3× 879 0.8× 187 8.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wolfowitz, J.. (2012). Consistent estimators of the parameters of a linear structural relation. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal. 1952. 132–151. 1 indexed citations
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Berger, Thomas, et al.. (1979). An upper bound on the rate distortion function for source coding with partial side information at the decoder. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 25(6). 664–666. 44 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1976). Maximum Probability Estimators in the Classical Case and in the “Almost Smooth” Case. Theory of Probability and Its Applications. 20(2). 363–371. 2 indexed citations
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Weiss, Lionel & J. Wolfowitz. (1974). Maximum Probability Estimators and Related Topics. Lecture notes in mathematics. 28 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & J. Wolfowitz. (1969). Correlated decoding for channels with arbitrarily varying channel probability functions. Information and Control. 14(5). 457–473. 20 indexed citations
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Weiss, Lionel & J. Wolfowitz. (1969). Asymptotically minimax tests of composite hypotheses. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 14(2). 161–168. 6 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1967). Approximation with a fidelity criterion. Project Euclid (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1967). The moments of recurrence time. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 18(4). 613–614. 3 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1964). Coding Theorems of Information Theory. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 91 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1963). Products of indecomposable, aperiodic, stochastic matrices. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 14(5). 733–737. 351 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1963). On channels without a capacity. Information and Control. 6(1). 49–54. 12 indexed citations
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Kiefer, J. & J. Wolfowitz. (1960). The Equivalence of Two Extremum Problems. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 12. 363–366. 533 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kiefer, J. & J. Wolfowitz. (1958). On the deviations of the empiric distribution function of vector chance variables. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 87(1). 173–186. 72 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1958). An upper bound on the rate of transmission of messages. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 2(1). 7 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1957). The coding of messages subject to chance errors. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 1(4). 99 indexed citations
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Dvoretzky, A., J. Kiefer, & J. Wolfowitz. (1953). Sequential Decision Problems for Processes with Continuous time Parameter. Testing Hypotheses. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 24(2). 254–264. 108 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1953). The Method of Maximum Likelihood and the Wald Theory of Decision Functions. Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). 56. 114–119. 13 indexed citations
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Dvoretzky, A., J. Kiefer, & J. Wolfowitz. (1952). The Inventory Problem: I. Case of Known Distributions of Demand. Econometrica. 20(2). 187–187. 76 indexed citations
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Tukey, John W., et al.. (1952). Statistical Methods for Natural Scientists, Medical Men, and Engineers.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 47(259). 554–554. 1 indexed citations
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Wolfowitz, J.. (1951). On $\epsilon$-Complete Classes of Decision Functions. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 22(3). 461–465. 5 indexed citations

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