Lawrence A. Shepp

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Lawrence A. Shepp is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence A. Shepp has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Statistics and Probability, 7 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 6 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Lawrence A. Shepp's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (5 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (5 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Lawrence A. Shepp is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (5 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (5 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (4 papers). Lawrence A. Shepp collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Denmark. Lawrence A. Shepp's co-authors include James A. Reeds, Moe Z. Win, Pedro Pintó, Robert L. Byer, Abram Kagan, M. Barry Goldman, Howard B. Sosin, John Steele, William F. Eddy and Martin A. Lindquist and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence A. Shepp

33 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Optimal paths for a car that goes both forwards and backw... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 2009 250 500 750 1000
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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. Optimal paths for a car that goes both forwards and backwards
    1990 1.0k citations James A. Reeds, Lawrence A. Shepp Pacific Journal of Mathematics profile →
  2. A Mathematical Theory of Network Interference and Its Applications
    2009 431 citations Moe Z. Win, Pedro Pintó et al. Proceedings of the IEEE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lawrence A. Shepp United States 12 954 634 426 425 411 33 1.8k
Gilles Labonté Canada 10 778 0.8× 280 0.4× 137 0.3× 725 1.7× 219 0.5× 50 1.3k
Elmer G. Gilbert United States 23 226 0.2× 2.4k 3.7× 189 0.4× 376 0.9× 180 0.4× 50 3.0k
H. Hindi United States 14 350 0.4× 761 1.2× 353 0.8× 205 0.5× 241 0.6× 49 2.0k
Yoonsoo Kim South Korea 21 307 0.3× 580 0.9× 356 0.8× 665 1.6× 825 2.0× 113 1.9k
Tetsuo Asano Japan 16 575 0.6× 165 0.3× 142 0.3× 148 0.3× 220 0.5× 108 1.4k
J.W. Modestino United States 28 1.4k 1.5× 681 1.1× 869 2.0× 165 0.4× 771 1.9× 125 3.1k
Zhisheng You China 20 544 0.6× 369 0.6× 188 0.4× 110 0.3× 444 1.1× 101 1.5k
Zongze Wu China 21 359 0.4× 554 0.9× 207 0.5× 201 0.5× 459 1.1× 121 1.8k
Farid Alizadeh United States 13 140 0.1× 454 0.7× 271 0.6× 109 0.3× 124 0.3× 29 2.7k
Yiguang Liu China 23 634 0.7× 134 0.2× 203 0.5× 52 0.1× 239 0.6× 106 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lawrence A. Shepp

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lawrence A. Shepp

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Suwansantisuk, Watcharapan, Moe Z. Win, & Lawrence A. Shepp. (2012). First passage time problems with applications to synchronization. 2580–2584. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Robert W., et al.. (2011). Online Selection of Alternating Subsequences from a Random Sample. Journal of Applied Probability. 48(4). 1114–1132. 7 indexed citations
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Win, Moe Z., Pedro Pintó, & Lawrence A. Shepp. (2009). A Mathematical Theory of Network Interference and Its Applications. Proceedings of the IEEE. 97(2). 205–230. 431 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lindquist, Martin A., et al.. (2008). THE ACQUISITION AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF RAPID 3D FMRI DATA. Statistica Sinica. 18(4). 1395–1419. 8 indexed citations
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Lindquist, Martin A., Cun-Hui Zhang, Gary H. Glover, & Lawrence A. Shepp. (2008). Rapid three-dimensional functional magnetic resonance imaging of the initial negative BOLD response. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 191(1). 100–111. 19 indexed citations
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Cho, Zang‐Hee, Gary H. Glover, Martin A. Lindquist, Lawrence A. Shepp, & Cun‐Hui Zhang. (2008). Fast functional magnetic resonance imaging—a new approach towards neuroimaging. Statistics and Its Interface. 1(1). 13–21. 2 indexed citations
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Hoffmann-Jørgensen, J., Abram Kagan, Loren D. Pitt, & Lawrence A. Shepp. (2007). Strong Decomposition of Random Variables. Journal of Theoretical Probability. 20(2). 211–220. 2 indexed citations
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Kagan, Abram & Lawrence A. Shepp. (2005). A Sufficiency Paradox. The American Statistician. 59(1). 54–56. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Qing, Martin A. Lindquist, Lawrence A. Shepp, et al.. (2002). Two dimensional prolate spheroidal wave functions for MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 158(1-2). 43–51. 18 indexed citations
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Kagan, Abram & Lawrence A. Shepp. (1998). Why the variance?. Statistics & Probability Letters. 38(4). 329–333. 15 indexed citations
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Levinson, Stephen E. & Lawrence A. Shepp. (1996). Image Models (and their Speech Model Cousins). CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5 indexed citations
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Shepp, Lawrence A., Gordon Simons, & Yi‐Ching Yao. (1991). On a problem of ammunition rationing. Advances in Applied Probability. 23(3). 624–641. 3 indexed citations
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Reeds, James A. & Lawrence A. Shepp. (1990). Optimal paths for a car that goes both forwards and backwards. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 145(2). 367–393. 1010 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nair, Vijayan N., Lawrence A. Shepp, & Michael J. Klass. (1986). On the Number of Crossings of Empirical Distribution Functions. The Annals of Probability. 14(3). 3 indexed citations
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Shepp, Lawrence A., et al.. (1986). Computed Tomography of PKM and AKM Exit Cones. AT&T Technical Journal. 65(1). 78–88. 6 indexed citations
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Shepp, Lawrence A.. (1983). Computed Tomography. 3 indexed citations
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Byer, Robert L. & Lawrence A. Shepp. (1979). Two-dimensional remote air-pollution monitoring via tomography. Optics Letters. 4(3). 75–75. 53 indexed citations
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Shepp, Lawrence A., John R. Klauder, & Hiroshi Ezawa. (1974). On the divergence of certain integrals of the Wiener process. Annales de l’institut Fourier. 24(2). 189–193. 5 indexed citations
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Shepp, Lawrence A.. (1962). 4952. American Mathematical Monthly. 69(4). 320–320. 1 indexed citations
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Shepp, Lawrence A.. (1961). The Expected Value of a Product. SIAM Review. 3(4). 329–329. 1 indexed citations

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