Sam C. Saunders

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sam C. Saunders is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam C. Saunders has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 22 papers in Statistics and Probability and 16 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Sam C. Saunders's work include Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (22 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (20 papers) and Fatigue and fracture mechanics (13 papers). Sam C. Saunders is often cited by papers focused on Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (22 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (20 papers) and Fatigue and fracture mechanics (13 papers). Sam C. Saunders collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Sam C. Saunders's co-authors include Z. W. Birnbaum, Alice S. Whittemore, J. D. Esary, S. Ramaswamy, Nancy R. Mann, R.D. Willett, Gary L. Gard, M. R. Pressprich, Harry B. Davis and R. D. Poshusta and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and Inorganic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sam C. Saunders

49 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

A new family of life distributions

1969 590 citations Z. W. Birnbaum, Sam C. Saunders Journal of Applied Probability profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam C. Saunders United States	19	1.3k	949	582	335	198	50	2.2k
Renyan Jiang China	20	862 0.7×	724 0.8×	823 1.4×	109 0.3×	34 0.2×	113	1.6k
Masaaki Kijima Japan	26	1.0k 0.8×	496 0.5×	1.3k 2.2×	35 0.1×	367 1.9×	128	3.4k
Maurice C. Bryson United States	15	745 0.6×	428 0.5×	256 0.4×	53 0.2×	15 0.1×	31	1.3k
M. S. Nikulin France	14	592 0.5×	274 0.3×	250 0.4×	41 0.1×	8 0.0×	49	1.3k
Robert G. Easterling United States	17	333 0.3×	377 0.4×	335 0.6×	39 0.1×	9 0.0×	66	1.2k
Haijun Li China	19	356 0.3×	148 0.2×	180 0.3×	15 0.0×	102 0.5×	105	1.5k
Warren Gilchrist United Kingdom	10	286 0.2×	260 0.3×	105 0.2×	16 0.0×	32 0.2×	26	807
Peter C. Kiessler United States	10	157 0.1×	111 0.1×	152 0.3×	23 0.1×	132 0.7×	31	970
Samaradasa Weerahandi United States	19	1.4k 1.1×	610 0.6×	75 0.1×	12 0.0×	37 0.2×	48	2.0k
Horst Rinne Germany	3	187 0.1×	161 0.2×	99 0.2×	94 0.3×	15 0.1×	8	790

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Birnbaum, Z. W. & Sam C. Saunders. (2016). ESTIMATION FOR A FAMILY OF LIFE DISTRIBUTIONS. 3 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C.. (2007). Reliability, life testing and the prediction of service lives : for engineers and scientists. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1999). Compounding Evidence from Multiple DNA-Tests. Mathematics Magazine. 72(1). 39–43. 1 indexed citations

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Khaleel, Mohammad A. & Sam C. Saunders. (1997). On the Fatigue-Life Distributions of Engineering Materials. International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering. 4(1). 93–115. 2 indexed citations

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Stewart, Charles W., C. T. Crowe, & Sam C. Saunders. (1993). A model for simultaneous coalescence of bubble clusters. Chemical Engineering Science. 48(19). 3347–3354. 4 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1993). Bias and mean-square error for the kaplan-meier and nelson-aalen estimators. Journal of nonparametric statistics. 3(1). 37–51. 3 indexed citations

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Pressprich, M. R., R.D. Willett, R. D. Poshusta, et al.. (1988). Preparation and crystal structure of dipyrazinium trichromate and bond length correlation for chromate anions of the form CrnO3n+12-. Inorganic Chemistry. 27(2). 260–264. 36 indexed citations

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Moody, Michael E. & Sam C. Saunders. (1987). Great Expectations: or Playing the Odds in the State Lotteries. 2 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1985). The Third Constant. 2 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1984). On the Behavior of Certain Maximum Likelihood Estimators from Large, Randomly Censored Samples. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 79(386). 294–301. 3 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1983). Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Two-Parameter Decreasing Hazard Rate Distributions Using Censored Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 78(383). 664–664. 9 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1983). Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Two-Parameter Decreasing Hazard Rate Distributions Using Censored Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 78(383). 664–673. 20 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C.. (1982). On maximum likelihood estimators of shape and scale parameters and their application in constructing confidence contours.. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 11(16). 1769–1791. 1 indexed citations

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Herman, Yvonne, et al.. (1976). A new microsplitter for unconsolidated sediments. Marine Geology. 20(2). 15–23. 3 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C.. (1974). A Family of Random Variables Closed Under Reciprocation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 69(346). 533–533. 19 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C.. (1970). A Probabilistic Interpretation of Miner’s Rule. II. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 19(1). 251–265. 5 indexed citations

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Birnbaum, Z. W. & Sam C. Saunders. (1969). A new family of life distributions. Journal of Applied Probability. 6(2). 319–327. 58 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C., et al.. (1968). On Confidence Limits for the Reliability of Systems. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39(5). 1463–1472. 15 indexed citations

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Saunders, Sam C.. (1963). On the Sample Size and Coverage for the Jirina Sequential Procedure. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 34(3). 847–856. 2 indexed citations

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Birnbaum, Z. W., J. D. Esary, & Sam C. Saunders. (1961). Multi-Component Systems and Structures and Their Reliability. Technometrics. 3(1). 55–77. 199 indexed citations

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