Paul Fearnhead

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Paul Fearnhead is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Fearnhead has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 47 papers in Statistics and Probability and 23 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paul Fearnhead's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (38 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (24 papers) and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (18 papers). Paul Fearnhead is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (38 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (24 papers) and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (18 papers). Paul Fearnhead collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Paul Fearnhead's co-authors include Idris A. Eckley, Rebecca Killick, Philip Awadalla, Gil McVean, Dennis Prangle, Peter Donnelly, Peter Clifford, Gareth O. Roberts, Zhen Liu and Guillem Rigaill and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Paul Fearnhead

120 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Optimal Detection of Changepoints With a Linear Computational Cost

2012 1.4k citations Paul Fearnhead, Idris A. Eckley et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
A Coalescent-Based Method for Detecting and Estimating Recombination From Gene Sequences

2002 543 citations Paul Fearnhead et al. Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Fearnhead United Kingdom	35	1.8k	1.5k	993	971	656	124	6.4k
Stephen P. Brooks United States	34	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	580 0.6×	855 0.9×	123 0.2×	121	11.0k
Walter R. Gilks United Kingdom	28	3.4k 1.9×	3.7k 2.5×	1.9k 1.9×	1.0k 1.1×	132 0.2×	78	12.4k
J. C. Gower United Kingdom	35	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.9×	1.2k 1.9×	146	15.2k
Thomas M. Loughin United States	27	507 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	560 0.6×	322 0.3×	308 0.5×	106	7.0k
David B. Dunson United States	55	3.5k 1.9×	3.5k 2.4×	989 1.0×	737 0.8×	83 0.1×	323	12.5k
Chris Holmes United Kingdom	42	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	972 1.0×	59 0.1×	146	6.5k
George A. F. Seber New Zealand	33	959 0.5×	2.9k 2.0×	509 0.5×	846 0.9×	215 0.3×	92	14.1k
Leonhard Held Switzerland	45	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	369 0.4×	412 0.4×	96 0.1×	212	8.8k
Kenneth Lange United States	56	1.8k 1.0×	2.6k 1.7×	5.1k 5.1×	10.0k 10.3×	263 0.4×	274	23.2k
M. P. Wand Australia	50	2.9k 1.6×	6.3k 4.3×	752 0.8×	555 0.6×	86 0.1×	185	13.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Fearnhead

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Fearnhead, Paul, et al.. (2024). Improving power by conditioning on less in post-selection inference for changepoints. Statistics and Computing. 35(1). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Ziyang, Idris A. Eckley, & Paul Fearnhead. (2024). A communication-efficient, online changepoint detection method for monitoring distributed sensor networks. Statistics and Computing. 34(3). 1 indexed citations

Fearnhead, Paul, et al.. (2024). PDMP Monte Carlo methods for piecewise smooth densities. Advances in Applied Probability. 56(4). 1153–1194.

Hocking, Toby Dylan, et al.. (2023). gfpop: An R Package for Univariate Graph-Constrained Change-Point Detection. Journal of Statistical Software. 106(6). 3 indexed citations

Nemeth, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Stochastic Gradient MCMC for Nonlinear State Space Models. Bayesian Analysis. 20(1). 1 indexed citations

Eckley, Idris A., et al.. (2023). Poisson-FOCuS: An Efficient Online Method for Detecting Count Bursts with Application to Gamma Ray Burst Detection. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 120(549). 7–19. 7 indexed citations

Fearnhead, Paul, et al.. (2018). Large-Scale Stochastic Sampling from the Probability Simplex. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 31. 6721–6731. 2 indexed citations

Fearnhead, Paul, et al.. (2016). A computationally efficient nonparametric approach for changepoint detection. Statistics and Computing. 27(5). 1293–1305. 89 indexed citations

Nemeth, Christopher, Paul Fearnhead, & Lyudmila Mihaylova. (2015). Particle Approximations of the Score and Observed Information Matrix for Parameter Estimation in State–Space Models With Linear Computational Cost. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 25(4). 1138–1157. 14 indexed citations

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Prangle, Dennis, Paul Fearnhead, Murray P. Cox, Patrick J. Biggs, & Nigel French. (2013). Semi-automatic selection of summary statistics for ABC model choice. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 13(1). 67–82. 37 indexed citations

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Fearnhead, Paul & Dennis Prangle. (2012). Constructing Summary Statistics for Approximate Bayesian Computation: Semi-Automatic Approximate Bayesian Computation. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 74(3). 419–474. 303 indexed citations

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Biggs, Patrick J., Paul Fearnhead, Grant S. Hotter, et al.. (2011). Whole-Genome Comparison of Two Campylobacter jejuni Isolates of the Same Sequence Type Reveals Multiple Loci of Different Ancestral Lineage. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27121–e27121. 26 indexed citations

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Fearnhead, Paul & Dennis Prangle. (2010). Semi-automatic Approximate Bayesian Computation. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations

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Gabriel, Edith, Daniel J. Wilson, A. J. H. Leatherbarrow, et al.. (2010). Spatio-temporal epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis, in an area of Northwest England, 2000–2002. Epidemiology and Infection. 138(10). 1384–1390. 15 indexed citations

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Wilson, Daniel J., Edith Gabriel, A. J. H. Leatherbarrow, et al.. (2008). Rapid Evolution and the Importance of Recombination to the Gastroenteric Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(2). 385–397. 133 indexed citations

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Fearnhead, Paul, Rosalind M. Harding, Julie A. Schneider, Simon Myers, & Peter Donnelly. (2004). Application of Coalescent Methods to Reveal Fine-Scale Rate Variation and Recombination Hotspots. Genetics. 167(4). 2067–2081. 34 indexed citations

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Fearnhead, Paul. (2003). Ancestral processes for non-neutral models of complex diseases. Theoretical Population Biology. 63(2). 115–130. 14 indexed citations

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Fearnhead, Paul & Peter Donnelly. (2002). Approximate likelihood methods for estimating local recombination rates (with discussion).. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome. 7. 7–7. 12 indexed citations

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Fearnhead, Paul & Peter Donnelly. (2001). Estimating Recombination Rates From Population Genetic Data. Genetics. 159(3). 1299–1318. 245 indexed citations

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Carpenter, James R., et al.. (1999). Building Robust Simulation-based Filters for Evolving Data Sets. 22 indexed citations

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