Ray D. Nelson

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ray D. Nelson is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Finance and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ray D. Nelson has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 5 papers in Finance and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ray D. Nelson's work include Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (4 papers) and Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling (4 papers). Ray D. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (4 papers) and Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling (4 papers). Ray D. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ray D. Nelson's co-authors include Jerry L. Hintze, James V. Hansen, James B. McDonald, Gary C. Cornia, Richard J. Butler, Rulon D. Pope, Robert A. Collins, Scott D. Grimshaw and Lawrence C. Walters and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics and Neurocomputing.

In The Last Decade

Ray D. Nelson

21 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism

1998 1.2k citations Jerry L. Hintze, Ray D. Nelson The American Statistician profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ray D. Nelson United States	12	317	221	196	181	148	21	2.0k
S. L. Singapore	7	440 1.4×	148 0.7×	162 0.8×	119 0.7×	357 2.4×	9	2.0k
Michael R. Chernick United States	27	234 0.7×	238 1.1×	221 1.1×	186 1.0×	458 3.1×	67	3.4k
Alvin C. Rencher United States	21	405 1.3×	195 0.9×	171 0.9×	219 1.2×	489 3.3×	32	3.7k
R. A. Johnson United States	20	439 1.4×	155 0.7×	89 0.5×	126 0.7×	183 1.2×	68	2.8k
Andrew A. Neath United States	11	392 1.2×	177 0.8×	146 0.7×	125 0.7×	550 3.7×	31	2.3k
Alexander J. Collins United Kingdom	9	257 0.8×	140 0.6×	124 0.6×	138 0.8×	356 2.4×	16	2.5k
Larry Rabinowitz United States	4	367 1.2×	106 0.5×	147 0.8×	136 0.8×	206 1.4×	5	2.4k
J. Brian Gray United States	15	178 0.6×	224 1.0×	161 0.8×	153 0.8×	470 3.2×	33	2.7k
Richard L. Scheaffer United States	23	363 1.1×	223 1.0×	213 1.1×	260 1.4×	622 4.2×	77	3.8k
W. Alan Nicewander United States	17	383 1.2×	104 0.5×	327 1.7×	173 1.0×	305 2.1×	37	3.4k

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Cornia, Gary C., Scott D. Grimshaw, Ray D. Nelson, & Lawrence C. Walters. (2010). The Effect of Local Option Sales Taxes on Local Sales. Public Finance Review. 38(6). 659–681. 10 indexed citations

Cornia, Gary C. & Ray D. Nelson. (2010). State Tax Revenue Growth and Volatility. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 23–58. 21 indexed citations

Cornia, Gary C., et al.. (2004). Fiscal Planning, Budgeting, and Rebudgeting Using Revenue Semaphores. Public Administration Review. 64(2). 164–179. 26 indexed citations

Cornia, Gary C. & Ray D. Nelson. (2003). Special Report / Viewpoint Rainy Day Funds and Value at Risk. 1 indexed citations

Hansen, James V. & Ray D. Nelson. (2003). Time-series analysis with neural networks and ARIMA-neural network hybrids. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 15(3). 315–330. 24 indexed citations

Hansen, James V. & Ray D. Nelson. (2002). Data mining of time series using stacked generalizers. Neurocomputing. 43(1-4). 173–184. 34 indexed citations

Hansen, James V., James B. McDonald, & Ray D. Nelson. (1999). Time Series Prediction With Genetic‐Algorithm Designed Neural Networks: An Empirical Comparison With Modern Statistical Models. Computational Intelligence. 15(3). 171–184. 100 indexed citations

Nelson, Ray D. & Rulon D. Pope. (1998). Improvements in the power of empirical stochastic dominance comparisons through kernel density estimation: a monte carlo study. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 60(4). 295–317. 2 indexed citations

Hintze, Jerry L. & Ray D. Nelson. (1998). Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism. The American Statistician. 52(2). 181–184. 1180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hintze, Jerry L. & Ray D. Nelson. (1998). Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism. The American Statistician. 52(2). 181–181. 284 indexed citations

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Hansen, James V. & Ray D. Nelson. (1997). Neural networks and traditional time series methods: a synergistic combination in state economic forecasts. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 8(4). 863–873. 103 indexed citations

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McDonald, James B. & Ray D. Nelson. (1993). Beta estimation in the market model: skewness and leptokurtosis. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 22(10). 2843–2862. 9 indexed citations

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Nelson, Ray D. & Rulon D. Pope. (1991). Bootstrapped Insights into Empirical Applications of Stochastic Dominance. Management Science. 37(9). 1182–1194. 27 indexed citations

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Butler, Richard J., et al.. (1990). Robust and Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 72(2). 321–321. 75 indexed citations

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McDonald, James B. & Ray D. Nelson. (1989). Alternative beta estimation for the market model using partially adaptive techniques. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 18(11). 4039–4058. 24 indexed citations

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Nelson, Ray D., et al.. (1988). Forward and Futures Markets and the Competitive Firm under Price Uncertainty. Southern Economic Journal. 55(1). 182–182. 11 indexed citations

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Collins, Robert A. & Ray D. Nelson. (1986). The Interyear Effect of Routine Marketing on Farm Income and Utility. North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics. 8(2). 257–257. 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Ray D.. (1985). Forward and Futures Contracts as Preharvest Commodity Marketing Instruments. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 67(1). 15–23. 22 indexed citations

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Nelson, Ray D. & Robert A. Collins. (1985). A measure of hedging's performance. Journal of Futures Markets. 5(1). 45–55. 10 indexed citations

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Nelson, Ray D.. (1981). Should commercial grain farmers use futures markets to hedge against price risk. University Microfilms International eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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