M. E. Ghitany

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

M. E. Ghitany is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, M. E. Ghitany has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Statistics and Probability, 32 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in M. E. Ghitany's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (60 papers), Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (31 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (19 papers). M. E. Ghitany is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (60 papers), Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (31 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (19 papers). M. E. Ghitany collaborates with scholars based in Kuwait, United States and Canada. M. E. Ghitany's co-authors include D. K. Al-Mutairi, Saralees Nadarajah, N. Balakrishnan, Fatemah Alqallaf, Josmar Mazucheli, Debasis Kundu, Fahimah Al-Awadhi, Essam K. AL-Hussaini, André F. B. Menezes and Ross Maller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Statistics in Medicine and Applied Mathematics and Computation.

In The Last Decade

M. E. Ghitany

63 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Lindley distribution and its application

2007 577 citations M. E. Ghitany, Saralees Nadarajah et al. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. E. Ghitany Kuwait	25	2.6k	1.6k	541	489	407	67	2.8k
Ehab M. Almetwally Egypt	26	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	375 0.7×	448 0.9×	256 0.6×	222	2.4k
Artur J. Lemonte Brazil	27	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	340 0.6×	346 0.7×	283 0.7×	114	2.2k
Ahmed Z. Afify Egypt	33	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	381 0.7×	635 1.3×	269 0.7×	148	2.8k
Mohammed Elgarhy Saudi Arabia	30	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	282 0.5×	647 1.3×	226 0.6×	244	3.0k
Morad Alizadeh Iran	31	2.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	307 0.6×	750 1.5×	257 0.6×	142	3.0k
C. D. Lai New Zealand	21	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	547 1.0×	270 0.6×	261 0.6×	77	2.4k
Sanku Dey India	28	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	503 0.9×	360 0.7×	164 0.4×	130	2.4k
Erhard Cramer Germany	25	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	531 1.0×	483 1.0×	157 0.4×	116	2.6k
G. G. Hamedani United States	31	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	274 0.5×	585 1.2×	338 0.8×	237	3.0k
Udo Kamps Germany	23	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	490 0.9×	381 0.8×	221 0.5×	112	2.4k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2023). Double Inverse-Gaussian Distributions and Associated Inference. PubMed. 24(2). 151–182. 1 indexed citations

Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2023). A Bimodal Extension of the Log-Normal Distribution on the Real Line with an Application to DNA Microarray Data. Mathematics. 11(15). 3360–3360. 1 indexed citations

Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2017). Some Characterization Results by Conditional Expectations and their Applications to Lindley-type Distributions. International Journal of Statistics and Probability. 7(1). 86–86.

Gómez–Déniz, Emilio, M. E. Ghitany, & Ramesh C. Gupta. (2016). A bivariate generalized geometric distribution with applications. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 46(11). 5453–5465. 9 indexed citations

Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2016). Proportional Hazard Inverse Weibull Distribution and Associated Inference. Journal of Mathematics and Statistics. 12(2). 86–98.

Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2013). Estimation of the Reliability of a Stress-Strength System from Power Lindley Distributions. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 44(1). 118–136. 85 indexed citations

Al-Mutairi, D. K., M. E. Ghitany, & Debasis Kundu. (2013). Inferences on Stress-Strength Reliability from Lindley Distributions. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 42(8). 1443–1463. 137 indexed citations

Gupta, Ramesh C., M. E. Ghitany, & D. K. Al-Mutairi. (2012). Estimation of reliability from a bivariate log-normal data. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 83(6). 1068–1081. 15 indexed citations

Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2011). On the existence and uniqueness of the MLEs of the parameters of a general class of exponentiated distributions. Statistics. 47(3). 605–612. 32 indexed citations

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Gupta, Ramesh C., M. E. Ghitany, & D. K. Al-Mutairi. (2009). Estimation of reliability from Marshall–Olkin extended Lomax distributions. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 80(8). 937–947. 46 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E. & D. K. Al-Mutairi. (2008). Size-biased Poisson-Lindley distribution and its application. METRON. 299–311. 31 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E., D. K. Al-Mutairi, & Saralees Nadarajah. (2008). Zero-truncated Poisson–Lindley distribution and its application. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 79(3). 279–287. 97 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2007). Marshall–Olkin Extended Lomax Distribution and Its Application to Censored Data. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 36(10). 1855–1866. 168 indexed citations

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AL-Hussaini, Essam K. & M. E. Ghitany. (2005). On certain countable mixtures of absolutely continuous distributions. METRON. 39–53. 9 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E.. (2004). The monotonicity of the reliabilitymeasures of the beta distribution. Applied Mathematics Letters. 17(11). 1277–1283. 19 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E., et al.. (2002). On hypergeometric generalized negative binomial distribution. International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. 29(12). 727–736. 12 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E.. (1998). On a recent generalization of gamma distribution. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 27(1). 223–233. 24 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E., Ross Maller, & Sean X. Zhou. (1995). Estimating the proportion of immunes in censored samples: A simulation study. Statistics in Medicine. 14(1). 39–49. 24 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E., Ross Maller, & Sean X. Zhou. (1994). Exponential Mixture Models with Long-Term Survivors and Covariates. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 49(2). 218–241. 58 indexed citations

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Ghitany, M. E.. (1990). Estimation of the scale parameter of gamma model in presence of outlier observations. International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. 13(1). 121–127. 1 indexed citations

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