Sidney Yakowitz

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Sidney Yakowitz is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sidney Yakowitz has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Statistics and Probability and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sidney Yakowitz's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (6 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (6 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (5 papers). Sidney Yakowitz is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (6 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (6 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (5 papers). Sidney Yakowitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Canada. Sidney Yakowitz's co-authors include Finn V. Jensen, J. Spragins, Shlomo P. Neuman, Ferenc Szidarovszky, Lucien Duckstein, Brian M. Rutherford, George G. Roussas, Lanh Tat Tran, George P. McCabe and David A. Freedman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Sidney Yakowitz

38 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Dynamic programming applications in water resources 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400
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. Dynamic programming applications in water resources
    1982 400 citations Sidney Yakowitz Water Resources Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sidney Yakowitz United States 24 744 629 418 417 406 39 2.5k
Tim Bedford United Kingdom 27 203 0.3× 436 0.7× 158 0.4× 562 1.3× 349 0.9× 106 4.2k
S. Yakowitz United States 25 125 0.2× 374 0.6× 181 0.4× 257 0.6× 99 0.2× 76 1.6k
G. E. P. Box United States 6 75 0.1× 477 0.8× 129 0.3× 259 0.6× 90 0.2× 8 2.9k
James Pickands United States 15 70 0.1× 308 0.5× 127 0.3× 829 2.0× 204 0.5× 21 3.9k
Dániel Straub Germany 42 295 0.4× 318 0.5× 54 0.1× 279 0.7× 3.3k 8.1× 231 6.1k
Joaquín Izquierdo Spain 36 1.1k 1.5× 382 0.6× 590 1.4× 27 0.1× 1.6k 3.9× 160 3.8k
Timothy Masters United States 10 126 0.2× 670 1.1× 122 0.3× 35 0.1× 246 0.6× 22 2.0k
Rommel G. Regis United States 23 356 0.5× 1.0k 1.6× 121 0.3× 24 0.1× 236 0.6× 41 2.5k
Heung Wong Hong Kong 25 66 0.1× 291 0.5× 195 0.5× 239 0.6× 98 0.2× 125 1.9k
Adil Bagirov Australia 28 131 0.2× 875 1.4× 71 0.2× 105 0.3× 195 0.5× 134 2.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yakowitz, Sidney, Pierre L’Ecuyer, & Felisa J. Vázquez-Abad. (2000). Global Stochastic Optimization with Low-Dispersion Point Sets. Operations Research. 48(6). 939–950. 49 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney, et al.. (1999). Strongly Consistent Nonparametric Forecasting and Regression for Stationary Ergodic Sequences. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 71(1). 24–41. 7 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney. (1997). An Introduction to Bayesian Networks. Technometrics. 39(3). 336–337. 52 indexed citations
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Tran, Lanh Tat, et al.. (1996). Fixed-design regression for linear time series. The Annals of Statistics. 24(3). 109 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney. (1994). Time Series Analysis of Higher Order Crossings (B. Kedem). SIAM Review. 36(4). 680–682. 2 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney & Ferenc Szidarovszky. (1989). An introduction to numerical computations (2nd ed.). 26 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney. (1989). Nonparametric density and regression estimation for Markov sequences without mixing assumptions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 30(1). 124–136. 42 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney, et al.. (1981). The application of optimal control methodology to nonlinear programming problems. Mathematical Programming. 21(1). 331–347. 21 indexed citations
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Smith, Roger E., et al.. (1981). A leaky reservoir model for ephemeral flow recession. Water Resources Research. 17(3). 628–636. 12 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney & Lucien Duckstein. (1980). Instability in aquifer identification: Theory and case studies. Water Resources Research. 16(6). 1045–1064. 72 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney, et al.. (1979). Constrained differential dynamic programming and its application to multireservoir control. Water Resources Research. 15(5). 1017–1027. 208 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney. (1979). A nonparametric Markov Model for daily river flow. Water Resources Research. 15(5). 1035–1043. 36 indexed citations
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Duckstein, Lucien, Ferenc Szidarovszky, & Sidney Yakowitz. (1977). Bayes design of a reservoir under random sediment yield. Water Resources Research. 13(4). 713–719. 17 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney. (1976). Model‐free statistical methods for water table prediction. Water Resources Research. 12(5). 836–844. 10 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney. (1976). Small-Sample Hypothesis Tests of Markov Order, with Application to Simulated and Hydrologic Chains. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 71(353). 132–132. 4 indexed citations
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Sagar, Budhi, Sidney Yakowitz, & Lucien Duckstein. (1975). A direct method for the identification of the parameters of dynamic nonhomogeneous aquifers. Water Resources Research. 11(4). 563–570. 53 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney, Lucien Duckstein, & Chester C. Kisiel. (1974). Decision analysis of a gamma hydrologic variate. Water Resources Research. 10(4). 695–704. 6 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney, et al.. (1973). On the Statistics of Hydrologic Time Series. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 1 indexed citations
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DeGroot, Morris H. & Sidney Yakowitz. (1971). Mathematics of Adaptive Control Processes.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 66(334). 428–428. 35 indexed citations
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Yakowitz, Sidney & J. Spragins. (1968). On the Identifiability of Finite Mixtures. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39(1). 209–214. 265 indexed citations

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