Peter Walley

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Peter Walley is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Walley has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 8 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 5 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Peter Walley's work include Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (19 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (5 papers) and Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic (5 papers). Peter Walley is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (19 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (5 papers) and Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic (5 papers). Peter Walley collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Australia and Belgium. Peter Walley's co-authors include L. H. Wasserman, Terrence L. Fine, Serafı́n Moral, Inés Couso, Gert de Cooman, Luis R. Pericchi, Renato Pelessoni, Paolo Vicig, Lyle C. Gurrin and Paul R. Burton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Peter Walley

24 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Statistical Reasoning With Imprecise Probabilities 1991 2026 2002 2014 1993 1991 500 1000 1.5k
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. Statistical Reasoning With Imprecise Probabilities
    1993 1.7k citations L. H. Wasserman, Peter Walley Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  2. Statistical Reasoning with Imprecise Probabilities
    1991 1.6k citations Peter Walley 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 Walley Spain 18 2.8k 1.9k 1.3k 1.0k 794 24 4.9k
L. H. Wasserman United States 15 1.6k 0.6× 793 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 466 0.5× 405 0.5× 41 3.6k
Владик Крейнович United States 32 2.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 2.1k 2.1× 872 1.1× 767 6.3k
James V. Zidek Canada 30 846 0.3× 493 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 103 0.1× 332 0.4× 120 3.7k
Serafı́n Moral Spain 28 1.7k 0.6× 843 0.5× 399 0.3× 520 0.5× 155 0.2× 112 2.2k
Malay Ghosh United States 24 1.2k 0.4× 781 0.4× 2.5k 1.9× 130 0.1× 726 0.9× 165 4.8k
Henri Prade France 26 2.1k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 516 0.4× 1.0k 1.0× 98 0.1× 99 3.2k
Gustave Choquet France 13 770 0.3× 1.7k 0.9× 955 0.7× 675 0.7× 83 0.1× 45 3.1k
Vladimir Vovk United Kingdom 34 2.3k 0.8× 697 0.4× 672 0.5× 550 0.5× 164 0.2× 130 4.3k
Marco Zaffalon Switzerland 24 1.2k 0.4× 372 0.2× 257 0.2× 409 0.4× 93 0.1× 120 1.8k
Didier Dubois France 13 2.0k 0.7× 2.8k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 238 0.3× 34 5.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Walley

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cozman, Fábio Gagliardi & Peter Walley. (2005). Graphoid properties of epistemic irrelevance and independence. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 45(1-2). 173–195. 5 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter, Renato Pelessoni, & Paolo Vicig. (2003). Direct algorithms for checking consistency and making inferences from conditional probability assessments. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 126(1). 119–151. 58 indexed citations
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Cooman, Gert de & Peter Walley. (2002). A possibilistic hierarchical model for behaviour under uncertainty. Theory and Decision. 52(4). 327–374. 32 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (2002). Reconciling frequentist properties with the likelihood principle. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 105(1). 35–65. 14 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter & Gert de Cooman. (2001). A behavioral model for linguistic uncertainty. Information Sciences. 134(1-4). 1–37. 48 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (2000). Towards a unified theory of imprecise probability. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 24(2-3). 125–148. 200 indexed citations
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Couso, Inés, Serafı́n Moral, & Peter Walley. (1999). Examples of Independence for Imprecise Probabilities. 121–130. 59 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter & Gert de Cooman. (1999). Coherence of rules for defining conditional possibility. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 21(1). 63–107. 34 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (1997). STATISTICAL INFERENCES BASED ON A SECOND-ORDER POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTION. International Journal of General Systems. 26(4). 337–383. 68 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (1997). A Bounded Derivative Model for Prior Ignorance about a Real‐valued Parameter. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 24(4). 463–483. 15 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (1996). Inferences from Multinomal Data: Learning about a bag of marbles (with discussion). 58. 2 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (1996). Measures of uncertainty in expert systems. Artificial Intelligence. 83(1). 1–58. 196 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter, Lyle C. Gurrin, & Paul R. Burton. (1996). Analysis of Clinical Data Using Imprecise Prior Probabilities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician). 45(4). 457–457. 35 indexed citations
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Wasserman, L. H. & Peter Walley. (1993). Statistical Reasoning With Imprecise Probabilities. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 88(422). 700–700. 1737 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hand, David J. & Peter Walley. (1993). Statistical Reasoning with Imprecise Probabilities.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 42(1). 237–237. 13 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (1991). Statistical Reasoning with Imprecise Probabilities. 1575 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pericchi, Luis R. & Peter Walley. (1991). Robust Bayesian Credible Intervals and Prior Ignorance. International Statistical Review. 59(1). 1–1. 74 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter & Flávio Menezes. (1990). Uncertainty and indeterminacy in assessing the economic viability of energy options; A case study of solar heating systems in Brazil. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 14(4). 281–304. 6 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter. (1987). Belief Function Representations of Statistical Evidence. The Annals of Statistics. 15(4). 86 indexed citations
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Walley, Peter & Terrence L. Fine. (1979). Varieties of modal (classificatory) and comparative probability. Synthese. 41(3). 321–374. 38 indexed citations

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