Peter Sprent

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Sprent is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Geometry and Topology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Sprent has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Statistics and Probability, 3 papers in Geometry and Topology and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Peter Sprent's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (5 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (3 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (2 papers). Peter Sprent is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (5 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (3 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (2 papers). Peter Sprent collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Peter Sprent's co-authors include S. T. Buckland, Jeffrey L. Laake, Kenneth P. Burnham, David R. Anderson, Janet I. Sprent, Joseph L. Gastwirth, J. Laurie Snell, Hrishikesh D. Vinod, Nigel Smeeton and Aman Ullah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Peter Sprent

56 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Distance Sampling-Estimating Abundance of Biological Popu... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 1994 2007 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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. Distance Sampling-Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations.
    1994 1.4k citations Peter Sprent et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
  2. Statistical Analysis of Circular Data.
    1994 668 citations Peter Sprent et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
  3. An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis
    2007 484 citations Peter Sprent Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Sprent United Kingdom 23 1.5k 579 558 516 342 59 4.7k
R. Kirk Steinhorst United States 20 1.2k 0.8× 913 1.6× 381 0.7× 597 1.2× 223 0.7× 42 4.9k
N. J. D. Nagelkerke Netherlands 13 651 0.4× 511 0.9× 281 0.5× 449 0.9× 263 0.8× 25 5.1k
Ronald L. Iman United States 34 1.2k 0.8× 688 1.2× 1.0k 1.9× 906 1.8× 660 1.9× 84 11.0k
David J. Groggel United States 9 798 0.5× 465 0.8× 376 0.7× 672 1.3× 330 1.0× 15 6.8k
Julian J. Faraway United States 32 630 0.4× 467 0.8× 709 1.3× 467 0.9× 470 1.4× 95 5.3k
Robert I. Jennrich United States 38 756 0.5× 337 0.6× 1.8k 3.2× 479 0.9× 383 1.1× 103 7.4k
Christian Kleiber Germany 17 1.0k 0.7× 597 1.0× 652 1.2× 914 1.8× 457 1.3× 37 5.3k
Paul McCullagh United Kingdom 31 697 0.5× 620 1.1× 723 1.3× 403 0.8× 427 1.2× 181 6.4k
John Fox United States 30 773 0.5× 934 1.6× 196 0.4× 409 0.8× 692 2.0× 73 4.6k
Fiona Fidler Australia 35 772 0.5× 568 1.0× 474 0.8× 712 1.4× 234 0.7× 83 5.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Sprent

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Sprent

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Sprent. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Sprent based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Peter Sprent. Peter Sprent is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spencer, Neil H., Nigel Smeeton, & Peter Sprent. (2025). Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods. 3 indexed citations
2.
Sprent, Peter. (2009). Introduction to Nonparametric Estimation. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 172(4). 944–945. 7 indexed citations
3.
Sprent, Peter. (2007). An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 170(4). 1178–1178. 484 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Sprent, Peter. (2003). Introduction to Nonparametric Item Response Theory. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician). 52(2). 249–250. 17 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (2003). Statistics in medical research. Swiss Medical Weekly. 133(3940). 522–529. 18 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (2003). Modern Medical Statistics: a Practical Guide. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 167(1). 189–190. 15 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter, D. V. Lindley, & W. F. Scott. (1996). New Cambridge Statistical Tables, 2nd edn.. Journal of Applied Ecology. 33(3). 650–650. 6 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter & Cyrus R. Mehta. (1990). STATXACT. Version 1.0.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 39(3). 391–391. 2 indexed citations
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Banks, David & Peter Sprent. (1990). Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 85(409). 264–264. 90 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (1988). Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods. 35 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter, Hrishikesh D. Vinod, & Aman Ullah. (1983). Recent Advances in Regression Methods.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 146(2). 203–203. 171 indexed citations
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Trustrum, Kathleen & Peter Sprent. (1982). Quick Statistics: An Introduction to Non-Parametric Methods.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 145(3). 372–372. 10 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter & G. R. Dolby. (1980). Query: The Geometric Mean Functional Relationship. Biometrics. 36(3). 547–547. 63 indexed citations
14.
Sprent, Peter. (1977). Statistics in action. Penguin eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter, Richard J. Larsen, & Donna F. Stroup. (1977). Statistics in the Real World. A Book of Examples. International Statistical Review. 45(1). 99–99. 7 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter, et al.. (1972). Models in Regression and Related Topics.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician). 21(1). 91–91. 57 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (1970). The Saddle Point of the Likelihood Surface for a Linear Functional Relationship. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 32(3). 432–434. 5 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (1968). Linear Relationships in Growth and Size Studies. Biometrics. 24(3). 639–639. 12 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (1965). Inversion of Nearly Diagonal Matrices. The Mathematical Gazette. 49(368). 184–189. 7 indexed citations
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Sprent, Peter. (1961). Some Hypotheses Concerning Two Phase Regression Lines. Biometrics. 17(4). 634–634. 54 indexed citations

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