Nozer D. Singpurwalla

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Nozer D. Singpurwalla is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Nozer D. Singpurwalla has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Statistics and Probability, 49 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 44 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Nozer D. Singpurwalla's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (59 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (49 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (36 papers). Nozer D. Singpurwalla is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (59 papers), Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (49 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (36 papers). Nozer D. Singpurwalla collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Ireland. Nozer D. Singpurwalla's co-authors include Richard J. Meinhold, Ray E. Schafer, Nancy R. Mann, Simon Wilson, John R. Collins, D. V. Lindley, Richard E. Barlow, Ernest H. Forman, J.B. Fussell and Jane M. Booker and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Nozer D. Singpurwalla

168 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life ... 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 250 500 750
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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. Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Data.
    1975 977 citations Nozer D. Singpurwalla et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nozer D. Singpurwalla United States 38 2.5k 2.2k 1.7k 1.4k 740 178 5.8k
Richard E. Barlow United States 33 4.5k 1.8× 4.4k 2.0× 3.1k 1.8× 2.0k 1.4× 820 1.1× 96 10.0k
Asit P. Basu United States 26 2.3k 0.9× 893 0.4× 1.5k 0.9× 228 0.2× 365 0.5× 93 3.5k
Tim Bedford United Kingdom 27 562 0.2× 628 0.3× 1.2k 0.7× 191 0.1× 436 0.6× 106 4.2k
Nan Chen China 35 983 0.4× 1.7k 0.8× 878 0.5× 399 0.3× 498 0.7× 140 5.0k
Ray E. Schafer United States 14 1.7k 0.7× 777 0.4× 1.2k 0.7× 206 0.1× 354 0.5× 44 3.6k
George S. Fishman United States 26 529 0.2× 314 0.1× 687 0.4× 232 0.2× 453 0.6× 100 3.6k
Kjell A. Doksum United States 29 2.5k 1.0× 425 0.2× 693 0.4× 110 0.1× 877 1.2× 82 4.9k
G. Apostolakis United States 35 197 0.1× 1.1k 0.5× 2.8k 1.6× 383 0.3× 306 0.4× 159 4.4k
Nikolaos Limnios France 26 631 0.3× 762 0.3× 558 0.3× 396 0.3× 321 0.4× 143 2.3k
Sheldon M. Ross 3 571 0.2× 533 0.2× 310 0.2× 261 0.2× 329 0.4× 4 3.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D.. (2016). Filtering and Tracking Survival Propensity (Reconsidering the Foundations of Reliability). Statistical Science. 31(4). 1 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D.. (2011). Network routing in a dynamic environment. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 5(2B). 1 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D. & Alyson G. Wilson. (2008). Probability, chance and the probability of chance. IIE Transactions. 41(1). 12–22. 7 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D. & Simon Wilson. (1999). Statistical methods in software engineering : reliability and risk. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 43 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D. & Simon Wilson. (1998). Failure models indexed by two scales. Advances in Applied Probability. 30(4). 1058–1072. 70 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D., et al.. (1997). Comment: "Burn-In" Makes Us Feel Good. Statistical Science. 12(1). 13–19. 36 indexed citations
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Chen, Jingxian & Nozer D. Singpurwalla. (1996). The Notion of “Composite Reliability” and its Hierarchical Bayes Estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 91(436). 1474–1484. 12 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D. & Simon Wilson. (1995). The exponentiation formula of reliability and survival: Does it always hold?. Lifetime Data Analysis. 1(2). 187–194. 9 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D.. (1992). A BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVE ON TAGUCHT'S APPROACH TO QUALITY ENGINEERING AND TOLERANCE DESIGN. IIE Transactions. 24(5). 18–31. 11 indexed citations
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Meinhold, Richard J. & Nozer D. Singpurwalla. (1989). Robustification of Kalman Filter Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 84(406). 479–486. 110 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D., et al.. (1985). Robustness of Sequential Exponential Life-Testing Procedures. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 80(391). 715–719. 10 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D., et al.. (1983). Some problems in simulating the quantiles of the maxima and other functionals of gaussian processes. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 18(1). 45–57. 4 indexed citations
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Meinhold, Richard J. & Nozer D. Singpurwalla. (1983). Understanding the Kalman Filter. The American Statistician. 37(2). 123–127. 395 indexed citations
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Sethuraman, Jayaram & Nozer D. Singpurwalla. (1982). Testing of Hypotheses for Distributions in Accelerated Life Tests. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 77(377). 204–208. 19 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D., et al.. (1980). Methods and Applications of Time Series Analysis. Part I. Regression, Trends, Smoothing, and Differencing.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D.. (1979). An Adaptive Bayesian Scheme for Estimating Reliability Growth under Exponential Failure Times.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D., et al.. (1978). The Gini Index, the Lorenz Curve, and the Total Time on Test Transforms.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations
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Barlow, Richard E., et al.. (1977). Reliability and Fault Tree Analysis. Technometrics. 19(3). 346–346. 300 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D. & Faiz Al-Khayyal. (1975). Inference from Accelerated Life Tests Using the Inverse Power Law Model.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations
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Singpurwalla, Nozer D., et al.. (1973). Some Contributions to the Stochastic Characterization of Wear,. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 11 indexed citations

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