Peter J. Bickel

53.7k citations

221 papers · 19.0k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 60

Impact in

Statistics and Probability top 0.01%
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty top 0.05%

Papers in

Statistics and Probability 98
- Statistical Methods and Inference 74
- Advanced Statistical Methods and Models 34
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference 26
- Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications 13
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 16
- Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring 13

Co-authors: Elizaveta Levina Ya’acov Ritov Kjell A. Doksum David A. Freedman Kenneth W. Wachter Alexandre B. Tsybakov Chris A. J. Klaassen Jon A. Wellner
Journals: The Annals of Statistics (38 papers)Journal of the American Statistical Association (19 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (13 papers)The Annals of Applied Statistics (5 papers)Bernoulli (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Israel Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Peter J. Bickel

217 papers receiving 17.2k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Metalearners for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects using machine learning 2019 · 468 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 The Annals of Statistics
2008 Regularized estimation of large covariance matrices
2007 Covariance regularization by thresholding
1994 Journal of the American Statistical Association
1994 Biometrics
1981 The Annals of Statistics
1979 Journal of the American Statistical Association
1973 The Annals of Statistics

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#	Work
1	Interpretable sensitivity analysis for balancing weights Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) ·Dan Soriano, Eli Ben‐Michael, Peter J. Bickel, Avi Feller, Samuel D. Pimentel	2023	10
2	Exploiting regulatory heterogeneity to systematically identify enhancers with high accuracy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hamutal Arbel, Sumanta Basu, William W. Fisher, Ann S. Hammonds, Kenneth H. Wan, Soo Hyung Park, Richard Weiszmann, Benjamin W. Booth, Soile V.E. Keränen, Clara Henriquez, Omid Shams Solari, Peter J. Bickel, Mark D. Biggin, S Celniker, James B. Brown	2018	15
3	The consistency of common neighbors for link prediction in stochastic blockmodels Neural Information Processing Systems ·Purnamrita Sarkar, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Peter J. Bickel	2015	4
4	INFERRING GENE ASSOCIATION NETWORKS USING SPARSE CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS arXiv (Cornell University) ·Y. X. Rachel Wang, Keni Jiang, Lewis J. Feldman, Peter J. Bickel, Haiyan Huang	2014	4
5	Comparison of D. melanogaster and C. elegans developmental stages, tissues, and cells by modENCODE RNA-seq data Genome Research ·Jingyi Jessica Li, Haiyan Huang, Peter J. Bickel, Steven E. Brenner	2014	68
6	On robust regression with high-dimensional predictors Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Noureddine El Karoui, Derek Bean, Peter J. Bickel, Chinghway Lim, Bin Yu	2013	81
7	Fitting community models to large sparse networks arXiv (Cornell University) ·Aiyou Chen, Arash A. Amini, Peter J. Bickel, Elizaveta Levina	2012	10
8	Long noncoding RNAs are rarely translated in two human cell lines Genome Research ·Balázs Bánfai, Hui Jia, Jainab Khatun, Emily J. Wood, Brian A. Risk, William E. Gundling, Anshul Kundaje, Harsha P. Gunawardena, Yanbao Yu, Ling Xie, Krzysztof Krajewski, Brian D. Strahl, Xian Chen, Peter J. Bickel, Morgan C. Giddings, James B. Brown, Leonard Lipovich	2012	319
9	Kurz- und langfristige Auswirkungen des Ausbaus erneuerbarer Energien auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt elib (German Aerospace Center) ·Ulrike Lehr, Christian Lutz, Dietmar Edler, Marlene O’Sullivan, Kristina Nienhaus, Joachim Nitsch, Sonja Simon, Barbara Breitschopf, Peter J. Bickel, Marion Ottmüller	2011	6
10	The method of moments and degree distributions for network models Peter J. Bickel, Aiyou Chen, Elizaveta Levina	2011	90
11	Genome-wide analysis of promoter architecture in Drosophila melanogaster Genome Research ·Roger A. Hoskins, Jane M. Landolin, James Brown, Jeremy E. Sandler, Hazuki Takahashi, Timo Lassmann, Charles Yu, Benjamin W. Booth, Dayu Zhang, Kenneth H. Wan, Li Yang, Nathan Boley, Justen Andrews, Thomas C. Kaufman, Brenton R. Graveley, Peter J. Bickel, Piero Carninci, Joseph W. Carlson, S Celniker	2010	177
12	Developmental roles of 21 Drosophila transcription factors are determined by quantitative differences in binding to an overlapping set of thousands of genomic regions Genome biology ·Stewart MacArthur, Xiaoyong Li, Jingyi Jessica Li, James B. Brown, Hou Cheng Chu, Lucy Zeng, Brandi P Grondona, Aaron Hechmer, Lisa Simirenko, Soile V.E. Keränen, David Knowles, Mark Stapleton, Peter J. Bickel, Mark D. Biggin, Michael B. Eisen	2009	259
13	Regularized estimation of large covariance matrices Peter J. Bickel, Elizaveta Levina Hit paper breakdown →	2008	730
14	On Detecting Periodicity in Astronomical Point Processes UC Berkeley ·Peter J. Bickel, Bas Kleijn, John Rice	2007	1
15	Covariance regularization by thresholding Peter J. Bickel, Elizaveta Levina Hit paper breakdown →	2007	689
16	Some Theory for Generalized Boosting Algorithms Journal of Machine Learning Research ·Peter J. Bickel, Ya’acov Ritov, Alon Zakai	2006	32
17	ExternE : externalities of energy : methodology 2005 update OPUS Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) ·Peter J. Bickel, Rainer Friedrich, Bernd Franke, Till M. Bachmann, A. Greßmann, Ari Rabl, Alistair Hunt, Anil Markandya, Richard S.J. Tol, F.W. Hurley, Ståle Navrud, Stefan Hirschberg, Peter Burgherr, Thomas F. Heck, Rudi Torfs, L. De Nocker, Stijn Vermoote, Luc Int Panis, Johan Tidblad	2005	299
18	Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Intrinsic Dimension Neural Information Processing Systems ·Elizaveta Levina, Peter J. Bickel	2004	399
19	Detecting DNA regulatory motifs by incorporating positional trends in information content Genome biology ·Katerina Kechris, Erik W. van Zwet, Peter J. Bickel, Michael B. Eisen	2004	16
20	Empirical Comparison of Travel Time Estimation Methods eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Xiaoyan Zhang, John A. Rice, Peter J. Bickel	1999	7

About Peter J. Bickel

Peter J. Bickel is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research and Finance, having authored 221 papers that have together received 19.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Statistical Methods and Inference (74 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (38 papers), Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (34 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (26 papers), Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (13 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (13 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Statistics and Probability (9.2k citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (1.5k citations), Finance (1.8k citations), Artificial Intelligence (4.1k citations) and Management Science and Operations Research (1.4k citations). Peter J. Bickel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Elizaveta Levina, Ya’acov Ritov, Kjell A. Doksum, David A. Freedman, Kenneth W. Wachter, Alexandre B. Tsybakov, Chris A. J. Klaassen, Jon A. Wellner, M. Rosenblatt and Aiyou Chen. Their work appears in journals such as The Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Annals of Applied Statistics and Bernoulli.

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