Meyer Dwass

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Meyer Dwass is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Meyer Dwass has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Statistics and Probability, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Meyer Dwass's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers), Probability and Risk Models (9 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (8 papers). Meyer Dwass is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers), Probability and Risk Models (9 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (8 papers). Meyer Dwass collaborates with scholars based in United States. Meyer Dwass's co-authors include S. Kullback, H. D. Brunk, Henry Teicher, Samuel Karlin, John Van Ryzin, Öystein Ore, Wilbur B. Davenport and J. Laurie Snell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, SIAM Review and The American Statistician.

In The Last Decade

Meyer Dwass

37 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Information Theory and Statistics.

1960 1.1k citations Meyer Dwass, S. Kullback American Mathematical Monthly profile →
Modified Randomization Tests for Nonparametric Hypotheses

1957 508 citations Meyer Dwass The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meyer Dwass United States	15	572	554	263	249	245	39	2.3k
Elizabeth L. Scott United States	15	367 0.6×	445 0.8×	148 0.6×	182 0.7×	121 0.5×	56	2.3k
Lucien LeCam	12	846 1.5×	636 1.1×	311 1.2×	183 0.7×	237 1.0×	14	3.1k
J. N. Darroch Australia	27	1.1k 1.9×	974 1.8×	337 1.3×	142 0.6×	206 0.8×	66	3.5k
D. E. Barton United Kingdom	16	381 0.7×	391 0.7×	192 0.7×	340 1.4×	396 1.6×	47	4.2k
H. D. Miller United Kingdom	13	755 1.3×	432 0.8×	477 1.8×	392 1.6×	465 1.9×	22	4.2k
Sidney C. Port United States	22	454 0.8×	280 0.5×	329 1.3×	163 0.7×	590 2.4×	73	2.9k
John H. Halton United States	14	258 0.5×	328 0.6×	192 0.7×	278 1.1×	132 0.5×	49	3.8k
Lucien M. Le Cam United Kingdom	8	397 0.7×	503 0.9×	123 0.5×	144 0.6×	112 0.5×	16	1.8k
Priscilla E. Greenwood Canada	22	365 0.6×	240 0.4×	195 0.7×	371 1.5×	280 1.1×	108	2.0k
Marius Iosifescu Romania	18	486 0.8×	479 0.9×	312 1.2×	213 0.9×	559 2.3×	49	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meyer Dwass

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All Works

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Dwass, Meyer. (1985). On the Convolution of Cauchy Distributions. American Mathematical Monthly. 92(1). 55–57. 5 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1979). A Generalized Binomial Distribution. The American Statistician. 33(2). 86–87. 2 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1975). Branching processes in simple random walk. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 51(2). 270–274. 18 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1973). The number of increases in a random permutation. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 15(2). 192–199. 15 indexed citations

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Snell, J. Laurie, et al.. (1973). Probability and Random Processes.. American Mathematical Monthly. 80(1). 88–88. 4 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1969). More birthday surprises. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. 7(3). 258–261. 12 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1969). The total progeny in a branching process and a related random walk. Journal of Applied Probability. 6(3). 682–686. 97 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1967). First steps in probability. McGraw-Hill eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1967). Poisson recurrence times. Journal of Applied Probability. 4(3). 605–608. 4 indexed citations

10.

Dwass, Meyer. (1967). Simple Random Walk and Rank Order Statistics. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 38(4). 1042–1053. 34 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer & Samuel Karlin. (1963). Conditioned Limit Theorems. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 34(4). 1147–1167. 13 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer & S. Kullback. (1960). Information Theory and Statistics.. American Mathematical Monthly. 67(3). 310–310. 1070 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dwass, Meyer & H. D. Brunk. (1960). An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics.. American Mathematical Monthly. 67(9). 938–938. 47 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1960). Some k-sample rank-order tests. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 109 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1958). On Several Statistics Related to Empirical Distribution Functions. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 29(1). 188–191. 11 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer & Henry Teicher. (1957). On Infinitely Divisible Random Vectors. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 28(2). 461–470. 38 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1955). A Note on Simultaneous Confidence Intervals. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 26(1). 146–147. 4 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1955). On the Asymptotic Normality of Some Statistics Used in Non-Parametric Tests. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 26(2). 334–339. 7 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer & Öystein Ore. (1954). Cardano, The Gambling Scholar.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 49(268). 925–925. 8 indexed citations

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Dwass, Meyer. (1953). On the Asymptotic Normality of Certain Rank Order Statistics. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 24(2). 303–306. 5 indexed citations

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