Jerald F. Lawless

17.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
166 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Jerald F. Lawless is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Jerald F. Lawless has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Statistics and Probability, 34 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 29 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Jerald F. Lawless's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (61 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (61 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (47 papers). Jerald F. Lawless is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (61 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (61 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (47 papers). Jerald F. Lawless collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Jerald F. Lawless's co-authors include Brian Francis, John D. Kalbfleisch, Richard J. Cook, Claude Nadeau, C. B. Dean, K. Singhal, Jeffrey A. Robinson, Robert J. MacKay, Marc Frédette and M. J. Crowder and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Jerald F. Lawless

163 papers receiving 11.5k citations

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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.

Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data.

1983 2.2k citations Jerald F. Lawless et al. profile →
Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data

2002 2.2k citations Jerald F. Lawless profile →
Negative binomial and mixed Poisson regression

1987 811 citations Jerald F. Lawless profile →
The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events

2007 541 citations Richard J. Cook, Jerald F. Lawless profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jerald F. Lawless Canada	46	7.1k	2.8k	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	166	12.4k
D. R. Cox United Kingdom	46	7.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	983 0.6×	2.9k 2.1×	2.3k 2.0×	127	23.7k
Norman L. Johnson United States	34	6.2k 0.9×	3.6k 1.3×	628 0.4×	3.0k 2.1×	2.4k 2.1×	354	15.4k
Samuel Kotz United States	63	10.4k 1.5×	6.8k 2.4×	1.1k 0.6×	4.0k 2.9×	4.0k 3.5×	339	23.6k
Harry Joe Canada	51	4.7k 0.7×	902 0.3×	481 0.3×	1.9k 1.4×	2.3k 2.0×	161	13.7k
Wayne Nelson United States	32	5.0k 0.7×	4.1k 1.5×	3.8k 2.1×	415 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	90	9.1k
Sheldon M. Ross United States	39	1.8k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.8×	212	13.0k
Joseph B. Kadane United States	47	4.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	319 0.2×	3.0k 2.1×	2.0k 1.8×	318	12.3k
John D. Kalbfleisch United States	51	8.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	615 0.3×	2.0k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	143	24.1k
Ross L. Prentice United States	86	10.5k 1.5×	1.2k 0.4×	505 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	383	42.9k
Saralees Nadarajah United Kingdom	51	8.1k 1.1×	4.7k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	902	14.5k

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Cook, Richard J. & Jerald F. Lawless. (2024). Selection processes, transportability, and failure time analysis in life history studies. Biostatistics. 26(1). 1 indexed citations

Lawless, Jerald F., et al.. (2024). Methodological challenges in studying disease processes using observational cohort data. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science. 8(1). 323–345.

Cook, Richard J. & Jerald F. Lawless. (2023). Statistical and Scientific Considerations Concerning the Interpretation, Replicability, and Transportability of Research Findings. The Journal of Rheumatology. 51(2). 117–129. 3 indexed citations

Cook, Richard J., et al.. (2022). Marker-dependent observation and carry-forward of internal covariates in Cox regression. Lifetime Data Analysis. 28(4). 560–584. 2 indexed citations

Lawless, Jerald F. & Richard J. Cook. (2019). A new perspective on loss to follow‐up in failure time and life history studies. Statistics in Medicine. 38(23). 4583–4610. 8 indexed citations

Cook, Richard J. & Jerald F. Lawless. (2019). Independence conditions and the analysis of life history studies with intermittent observation. Biostatistics. 22(3). 455–481. 11 indexed citations

Cook, Richard J. & Jerald F. Lawless. (2018). Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data. 64 indexed citations

Cook, Richard J. & Jerald F. Lawless. (2013). CONCEPTS AND TESTS FOR TREND IN RECURRENT EVENT PROCESSES. 12(1). 35–69. 4 indexed citations

Lawless, Jerald F., et al.. (2013). Insights From Mixture Cure Modeling of Molecular Markers for Prognosis in Breast Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 31(16). 2047–2054. 19 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F., et al.. (2012). Testing for Monotone Trend in Recurrent Event Processes. Technometrics. 54(2). 147–158. 7 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F. & Denise C. Babineau. (2006). Models for interval censoring and simulation-based inference for lifetime distributions. Biometrika. 93(3). 671–686. 19 indexed citations

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Cook, Richard J., Jerald F. Lawless, & Ker‐Ai Lee. (2003). Cumulative processes related to event histories.. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 27(1). 13–30. 8 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F., et al.. (1996). A Point-Process Model Incorporating Renewals and Time Trends, With Application to Repairable Systems. Technometrics. 38(2). 131–138. 41 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F. & Claude Nadeau. (1995). Some Simple Robust Methods for the Analysis of Recurrent Events. Technometrics. 37(2). 158–168. 335 indexed citations

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Kalbfleisch, John D. & Jerald F. Lawless. (1985). The Analysis of Panel Data Under a Markov Assumption. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 80(392). 863–863. 68 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F.. (1981). Mean Squared Error Properties of Generalized Ridge Estimators. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 76(374). 462–466. 22 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F.. (1978). Ridge and related estimation procedures: theory and practice. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 7(2). 139–164. 34 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F. & Nancy R. Mann. (1976). Tests for homogeneity of extreme value scale parameters. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 5(5). 389–405. 26 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F.. (1975). Construction of Tolerance Bounds for the Extreme-Value and Weibull Distributions. Technometrics. 17(2). 255–261. 46 indexed citations

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Lawless, Jerald F.. (1971). A Prediction Problem Concerning Samples From the Exponential Distribution, With Application in Life Testing. Technometrics. 13(4). 725–730. 82 indexed citations

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