Laurence A. Baxter

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Laurence A. Baxter is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurence A. Baxter has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Statistics and Probability, 16 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 13 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Laurence A. Baxter's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (21 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (16 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (10 papers). Laurence A. Baxter is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (21 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (16 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (10 papers). Laurence A. Baxter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Laurence A. Baxter's co-authors include Martin L. Puterman, Arnold O. Allen, Xavier Guyon, Chul Kim, Ernest M. Scheuer, Wallace R. Blischke, Denis J. McConalogue, Linxiong Li, Michael Tortorella and Masaaki Kijima and has published in prestigious journals such as Technometrics, European Journal of Operational Research and Biometrika.

In The Last Decade

Laurence A. Baxter

59 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Pr... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 400 800 1.2k
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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. Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming
    1995 1.4k citations Laurence A. Baxter et al. Technometrics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laurence A. Baxter United States 17 789 703 572 418 401 61 3.2k
Sheldon M. Ross 3 1.0k 1.3× 329 0.5× 640 1.1× 533 1.3× 620 1.5× 4 3.5k
Michael O. Ball United States 40 842 1.1× 464 0.7× 503 0.9× 694 1.7× 521 1.3× 139 5.5k
Chelsea C. White United States 29 452 0.6× 816 1.2× 237 0.4× 245 0.6× 815 2.0× 135 4.0k
Runwei Cheng Japan 18 558 0.7× 1.2k 1.8× 568 1.0× 183 0.4× 657 1.6× 31 6.1k
Frederick S. Hillier United States 26 556 0.7× 320 0.5× 398 0.7× 208 0.5× 1.1k 2.8× 71 5.2k
Henk Tijms Netherlands 25 789 1.0× 242 0.3× 570 1.0× 345 0.8× 834 2.1× 104 3.1k
Steven I. Marcus United States 39 1.0k 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 375 0.7× 186 0.4× 800 2.0× 220 4.7k
Linus Schrage United States 29 1.1k 1.3× 501 0.7× 400 0.7× 102 0.2× 1.2k 3.1× 58 5.3k
Y. C. Ho United States 29 726 0.9× 958 1.4× 581 1.0× 136 0.3× 1.2k 3.1× 120 4.5k
Cyrus Derman United States 26 406 0.5× 394 0.6× 101 0.2× 488 1.2× 559 1.4× 70 2.6k

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All Works

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Baxter, Laurence A., Stephen J. Finch, Frederick W. Lipfert, & Qiqing Yu. (1997). Comparing Estimates of the Effects of Air Pollution on Human Mortality Obtained Using Different Regression Methodologies. Risk Analysis. 17(3). 273–278. 16 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Linxiong Li. (1996). Nonparametric estimation of the limiting availability. Lifetime Data Analysis. 2(4). 391–402. 10 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A., et al.. (1996). Reliability Analysis for Engineers: An Introduction. Technometrics. 38(2). 185–185. 13 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Xavier Guyon. (1996). Random Fields on a Network: Modeling, Statistics, and Applications. Technometrics. 38(4). 409–409. 93 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Linxiong Li. (1994). Non-parametric Confidence Intervals for the Renewal Function and the Point Availability. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 21(3). 277–287. 17 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Linxiong Li. (1994). Renewal theory in a random environment. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 116(1). 179–190. 1 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1993). Towards a theory of confidence intervals for system reliability. Statistics & Probability Letters. 16(1). 29–38. 5 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A., et al.. (1992). On the optimal assembly of series-parallel systems. Operations Research Letters. 11(3). 153–157. 16 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1992). Probability, Statistics, and Queueing Theory With Computer Sciences Applications (2nd ed.). Technometrics. 34(2). 240–241. 2 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Seung Min Lee. (1990). A weak convergence Theorem for continuum structure functions. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 148(2). 463–468. 1 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1990). Futures of Statistics. The American Statistician. 44(2). 128–128. 1 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Seung Min Lee. (1989). Structure functions with finite minimal vector sets. Journal of Applied Probability. 26(1). 196–201. 4 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Seung Min Lee. (1989). Structure functions with finite minimal vector sets. Journal of Applied Probability. 26(1). 196–201. 4 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1988). Some criteria for reliability growth. Microelectronics Reliability. 28(5). 743–750. 8 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1988). On the theory of cannibalization. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 136(1). 290–297. 4 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A., et al.. (1988). Optimal Control of a Model for a System Subject to Continuous Wear. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. 2(3). 321–328. 3 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Chul Kim. (1986). Bounding the stochastic performance of continuum structure functions. I. Journal of Applied Probability. 23(3). 660–669. 2 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A. & Chul Kim. (1986). Bounding the stochastic performance of continuum structure functions. I. Journal of Applied Probability. 23(3). 660–669. 17 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1983). The moments of the forward recurrence times of an alternating renewal process. European Journal of Operational Research. 12(2). 205–207. 1 indexed citations
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Baxter, Laurence A.. (1981). Availability measures for a two-state system. Journal of Applied Probability. 18(1). 227–235. 2 indexed citations

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