S. Kotz

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

S. Kotz is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Kotz has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Statistics and Probability, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in S. Kotz's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (12 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (7 papers). S. Kotz is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (12 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (7 papers). S. Kotz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. S. Kotz's co-authors include Norman L. Johnson, D. V. Gokhale, Norman L. Johnson, Campbell B. Read, A. P. Dawid, C. D. Kemp, D. N. Shanbhag, Saralees Nadarajah, W. R. Buckland and И. В. Островскии and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

S. Kotz

65 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Multivariate Dist... 1971 2026 1989 2007 1973 1984 1971 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. Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Multivariate Distributions.
    1973 1.2k citations Norman L. Johnson, S. Kotz et al. Biometrics profile →
  2. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences 2.
    1984 1.1k citations S. Kotz, Norman L. Johnson et al. Biometrics profile →
  3. Distribution in Statistics: Discrete Distributions
    1971 437 citations Norman L. Johnson, S. Kotz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. Kotz United States 23 1.7k 706 644 616 458 70 4.0k
Norman L. Johnson United States 22 1.4k 0.8× 837 1.2× 787 1.2× 640 1.0× 287 0.6× 56 4.6k
Robert V. Hogg United States 39 2.4k 1.4× 801 1.1× 832 1.3× 734 1.2× 361 0.8× 124 6.3k
Norman L. Johnson United States 19 1.4k 0.8× 559 0.8× 577 0.9× 514 0.8× 306 0.7× 55 4.2k
Kjell A. Doksum United States 29 2.5k 1.5× 693 1.0× 877 1.4× 498 0.8× 361 0.8× 82 4.9k
H. A. David United States 26 1.8k 1.0× 895 1.3× 415 0.6× 568 0.9× 304 0.7× 107 4.2k
Malay Ghosh United States 24 2.5k 1.5× 726 1.0× 1.2k 1.9× 781 1.3× 207 0.5× 165 4.8k
S. James Press United States 27 1.3k 0.8× 388 0.5× 730 1.1× 504 0.8× 708 1.5× 78 4.5k
Jeffrey S. Simonoff United States 31 2.1k 1.2× 672 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 419 0.7× 287 0.6× 125 6.1k
Thomas J. DiCiccio United States 27 2.3k 1.3× 481 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 413 0.7× 267 0.6× 70 5.1k
Roger L. Berger United States 23 2.7k 1.6× 810 1.1× 955 1.5× 1.1k 1.8× 242 0.5× 65 6.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nadarajah, Saralees & S. Kotz. (2007). Comments on "Scalable Services via Egress Admission Control. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 10(1). 160–161. 3 indexed citations
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Nadarajah, Saralees & S. Kotz. (2007). On the PDF of the Disparity Gradient. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics - Part A Systems and Humans. 38(1). 253–253.
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Vapnik, Vladimir & S. Kotz. (2006). Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data: Empirical Inference Science (Information Science and Statistics). Springer eBooks. 43 indexed citations
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Nadarajah, Saralees & S. Kotz. (2006). Comment on the probability indices. Journal of Materials Science. 41(19). 6479–6480. 3 indexed citations
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Kotz, S.. (2005). Reflections on Early History of Official Statistics and a Modest Proposal for Global Coordination. Journal of Official Statistics. 21(2). 139. 1 indexed citations
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Nadarajah, Saralees & S. Kotz. (2005). INFORMATION MATRIX FOR A MIXTURE OF TWO PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology (Sciences). 29(3). 377–385. 4 indexed citations
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Ziegel, Eric R., S. Kotz, Campbell B. Read, & David Banks. (1998). Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences: Update Volume 2. Technometrics. 40(4). 359–359. 4 indexed citations
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Kotz, S. & Norman L. Johnson. (1998). Breakthroughs in Statistics, Vol. III. Biometrics. 54(2). 797–797. 27 indexed citations
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Papageorgiou, H., Norman L. Johnson, S. Kotz, & N. Balakrishnan. (1998). Discrete Multivariate Distributions. Biometrics. 54(2). 795–795. 23 indexed citations
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Kotz, S., et al.. (1995). Analytic and Asymptotic Properties of Linnik′s Probability Densities ,I. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 193(1). 353–371. 40 indexed citations
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Kotz, S., et al.. (1995). Analytic and Asymptotic Properties of Linnik′s Probability Densities .II.. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 193(2). 497–521. 12 indexed citations
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Kotz, S., et al.. (1994). Analytic and asymptotic properties of Linnik's probability densities. Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University). 319(9). 985–990. 5 indexed citations
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Kotz, S. & И. В. Островскии. (1994). Characteristic Functions of a Class of Elliptic Distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 49(1). 164–178. 14 indexed citations
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Kotz, S., et al.. (1993). Use of Moments in Distribution Theory: A Multivariate Case. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 46(1). 112–119. 7 indexed citations
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Kotz, S., et al.. (1991). Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences-Supplement Volume.. Biometrics. 47(2). 781–781. 7 indexed citations
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Kotz, S. & F. W. Steutel. (1988). Note on a characterization of exponential distributions. Statistics & Probability Letters. 6(3). 201–203. 27 indexed citations
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Shanbhag, D. N. & S. Kotz. (1987). Some new approaches to multivariate probability distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 22(2). 189–211. 30 indexed citations
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Barton, D. E., et al.. (1984). Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences Vol. I: A-Circular Probable Error.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 147(3). 524–524. 3 indexed citations
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Zabell, S. L., G. P. Patil, S. Kotz, & J. K. Ord. (1978). Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work, Volume 1: Models and Structures.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 73(361). 220–220. 2 indexed citations
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Patil, G. P., S. Kotz, & J. K. Ord. (1975). A Modern Course on Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work : Volume 1 - Models and Structures Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the University of Calgagry, Calgary, Alberta, Canada July 29 - August 10, 1974. 2 indexed citations

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