Thomas Sellke

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Sellke is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Sellke has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Statistics and Probability, 6 papers in Mathematical Physics and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thomas Sellke's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (5 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (4 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (4 papers). Thomas Sellke is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (5 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (4 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (4 papers). Thomas Sellke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. Thomas Sellke's co-authors include James O. Berger, M. J. Bayarri, J. Michael Harrison, Allison J. Taylor, David Siegmund, Edward J. Coyle, J.-H. Lin, Daniel J. Benjamin, Hani Doss and Steven P. Lalley and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Sellke

27 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Testing a Point Null Hypothesis: The Irreconcilability of... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 2001 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Testing a Point Null Hypothesis: The Irreconcilability ofPValues and Evidence
    1987 570 citations James O. Berger, Thomas Sellke Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  2. Calibration ofρValues for Testing Precise Null Hypotheses
    2001 528 citations Thomas Sellke, M. J. Bayarri et al. The American Statistician profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Sellke United States 12 961 424 400 291 279 27 2.1k
David Cox United Kingdom 18 942 1.0× 319 0.8× 325 0.8× 370 1.3× 383 1.4× 42 2.7k
H. E. Daniels United Kingdom 20 902 0.9× 362 0.9× 408 1.0× 214 0.7× 111 0.4× 54 2.0k
Bent Jørgensen Denmark 26 1.4k 1.5× 204 0.5× 665 1.7× 429 1.5× 358 1.3× 66 2.7k
Richard L. Dykstra United States 22 1.5k 1.5× 406 1.0× 591 1.5× 484 1.7× 252 0.9× 76 3.0k
P. C. Consul Canada 19 1.0k 1.1× 193 0.5× 556 1.4× 196 0.7× 171 0.6× 61 1.7k
S. Kotz United States 23 1.7k 1.8× 706 1.7× 644 1.6× 616 2.1× 405 1.5× 70 4.0k
Shelemyahu Zacks United States 17 770 0.8× 299 0.7× 200 0.5× 448 1.5× 198 0.7× 61 1.8k
S. Kocherlakota Canada 16 1.3k 1.3× 399 0.9× 609 1.5× 355 1.2× 220 0.8× 48 3.1k
Lucien LeCam 12 846 0.9× 165 0.4× 636 1.6× 311 1.1× 296 1.1× 14 3.1k
C. R. Rao United States 21 1.1k 1.1× 298 0.7× 507 1.3× 334 1.1× 189 0.7× 66 2.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bayarri, M. J., Daniel J. Benjamin, James O. Berger, & Thomas Sellke. (2016). Rejection odds and rejection ratios: A proposal for statistical practice in testing hypotheses. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 72. 90–103. 68 indexed citations
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Benjamin, Daniel J., et al.. (2015). Rejection Odds and Rejection Ratios: A Proposal for Statistical Practice in Testing Hypotheses. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (2006). Recurrence of Reinforced Random Walk on a Ladder. Electronic Journal of Probability. 11(none). 8 indexed citations
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Lalley, Steven P. & Thomas Sellke. (2002). Anisotropic contact processes on homogeneous trees. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 101(2). 163–183. 1 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (2002). Yet Another Proof of the Radon-Nikodým Theorem. American Mathematical Monthly. 109(1). 74–76. 1 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (2002). Yet Another Proof of the Radon-Nikodym Theorem. American Mathematical Monthly. 109(1). 74–74. 1 indexed citations
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Lalley, Steven P. & Thomas Sellke. (2000). An extension of Hawkes theorem on the Hausdorff dimension of a Galton–Watson tree. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 116(1). 41–56. 7 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas, et al.. (1997). Chebyshev Inequalities for Unimodal Distributions. The American Statistician. 51(1). 34–34. 1 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (1995). How Many IID Samples Does it Take to See all the Balls in a Box?. The Annals of Applied Probability. 5(1). 13 indexed citations
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Gabbouj, Moncef, Ilya Shmulevich, Thomas Sellke, & Edward J. Coyle. (1995). Stack Filters and Free Distributive Lattices. 10 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas, et al.. (1990). Adaptive stack filtering under the mean absolute error criterion. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1247. 182–182. 5 indexed citations
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Berger, James O. & Thomas Sellke. (1987). Testing a Point Null Hypothesis: The Irreconcilability of P Values and Evidence. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 82(397). 112–112. 351 indexed citations
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Berger, James O. & Thomas Sellke. (1987). Testing a Point Null Hypothesis: The Irreconcilability of P Values and Evidence: Rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 82(397). 135–135. 11 indexed citations
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Rubin, Herman & Thomas Sellke. (1986). On the Distributions of Sums of Symmetric Random Variables and Vectors. The Annals of Probability. 14(1). 2 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas, et al.. (1985). Performance sampling and multiple choices: Brow ni an motion models. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 11(3). 223–244. 3 indexed citations
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Harrison, J. Michael, Thomas Sellke, & Allison J. Taylor. (1983). Impulse Control of Brownian Motion. Mathematics of Operations Research. 8(3). 454–466. 163 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas & David Siegmund. (1983). Sequential analysis of the proportional hazards model. Biometrika. 70(2). 315–326. 106 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (1983). On the asymptotic distribution of the size of a stochastic epidemic. Journal of Applied Probability. 20(2). 390–394. 119 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (1983). On the asymptotic distribution of the size of a stochastic epidemic. Journal of Applied Probability. 20(2). 390–394. 34 indexed citations
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Sellke, Thomas. (1982). Large Sample Theory for Sequential Analysis of the Proportional Hazards Model.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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