Stefan Wager

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Stefan Wager is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Wager has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Statistics and Probability, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Stefan Wager's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (21 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (18 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (12 papers). Stefan Wager is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (21 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (18 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (12 papers). Stefan Wager collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and Switzerland. Stefan Wager's co-authors include Susan Athey, Percy Liang, Sida Wang, Robert Tibshirani, Trevor Hastie, Max G’Sell, Alexandra Chouldechova, Jonathan Taylor, Emma Brunskill and Suzanne de Treville and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Wager

55 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests

2017 1.3k citations Stefan Wager, Susan Athey Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Wager United States	15	833	471	421	191	164	60	2.2k
Alexandre Belloni United States	23	1.5k 1.8×	1.0k 2.1×	437 1.0×	361 1.9×	293 1.8×	60	3.5k
Hrishikesh D. Vinod United States	27	661 0.8×	905 1.9×	352 0.8×	346 1.8×	156 1.0×	144	3.1k
Denis Chetverikov United States	16	1.3k 1.6×	711 1.5×	339 0.8×	187 1.0×	163 1.0×	27	2.4k
Han Liu China	17	257 0.3×	270 0.6×	314 0.7×	144 0.8×	304 1.9×	57	1.8k
Xinyuan Song China	28	1.3k 1.5×	219 0.5×	607 1.4×	265 1.4×	108 0.7×	144	2.8k
Kuldeep Kumar Australia	24	221 0.3×	332 0.7×	486 1.2×	310 1.6×	151 0.9×	179	2.6k
Stan Lipovetsky United States	24	718 0.9×	310 0.7×	435 1.0×	1.0k 5.3×	124 0.8×	194	3.0k
Göran Kauermann Germany	24	933 1.1×	497 1.1×	247 0.6×	195 1.0×	149 0.9×	131	2.3k
Sangit Chätterjee United States	18	225 0.3×	337 0.7×	236 0.6×	160 0.8×	123 0.8×	75	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Wager

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All Works

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Petukhova, Maria, et al.. (2025). Estimating Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Psychiatry: A Review and Tutorial With Causal Forests. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 34(2). e70015–e70015. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Han, et al.. (2024). Qini Curves for Multi-Armed Treatment Rules. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 34(3). 948–960. 4 indexed citations

Zainal, Nur Hani, Robert M. Bossarte, Irving Hwang, et al.. (2024). Developing an individualized treatment rule for Veterans with major depressive disorder using electronic health records. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(8). 2335–2345. 3 indexed citations

Haslinger, Christian, et al.. (2024). What makes forest-based heterogeneous treatment effect estimators work?. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

Wu, Xiao, et al.. (2023). Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests. Science Advances. 9(45). eadi4123–eadi4123. 21 indexed citations

Ross, Eric L., Robert M. Bossarte, Steven K. Dobscha, et al.. (2023). Estimated Average Treatment Effect of Psychiatric Hospitalization in Patients With Suicidal Behaviors. JAMA Psychiatry. 81(2). 135–135. 10 indexed citations

Gur, Yonatan, Ahmadreza Momeni, & Stefan Wager. (2019). Smoothness-Adaptive Stochastic Bandits.. arXiv (Cornell University).

Ignatiadis, Nikolaos & Stefan Wager. (2019). Covariate-Powered Empirical Bayes Estimation. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 9620–9632. 2 indexed citations

Wager, Stefan & Susan Athey. (2017). Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 113(523). 1228–1242. 1346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hirshberg, David A. & Stefan Wager. (2017). Balancing Out Regression Error: Efficient Treatment Effect Estimation without Smooth Propensities. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Wager, Stefan, et al.. (2017). Learning Objectives for Treatment Effect Estimation. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations

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Nagata, Jason M., et al.. (2016). Prevalence and Predictors of Malnutrition among Guatemalan Children at 2 Years of Age. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0164772–e0164772. 8 indexed citations

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Steinhardt, Jacob, Gregory Valiant, & Stefan Wager. (2015). Memory, Communication, and Statistical Queries. Electronic colloquium on computational complexity. 22. 126–1516. 2 indexed citations

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Wager, Stefan, et al.. (2014). Quantifying and Exploiting the Age Dependence in the Effect of Supplementary Food for Child Undernutrition. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99632–e99632. 9 indexed citations

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G’Sell, Max, Stefan Wager, Alexandra Chouldechova, & Robert Tibshirani. (2013). False Discovery Rate Control for Sequential Selection Procedures, with Application to the Lasso. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Wager, Stefan, Trevor Hastie, & Bradley Efron. (2013). Standard Errors for Bagged Predictors and Random Forests. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Sida, Mengqiu Wang, Stefan Wager, Percy Liang, & Christopher D. Manning. (2013). Feature Noising for Log-Linear Structured Prediction. 1170–1179. 11 indexed citations

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Wager, Stefan, et al.. (2012). Cell range extension in LTE in-band relays: Analysis of radio link, subframe allocation and protocol perfornance of FTP traffic model. European Wireless Conference. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, S.S. & Stefan Wager. (1995). INHIBIT SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH POLLING : A MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL SCHEME FOR THE MOBILE ENVIRONMENT , AND ITS ADAPTATION TO THE GSM GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICES. Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications. 926–930. 3 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, S.S. & Stefan Wager. (1995). Inhibit Sense Multiple Access with Reservation, a Contender for GSM/GPRS Packet Services. 1 indexed citations

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