Walter L. Smith

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Walter L. Smith is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter L. Smith has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Statistics and Probability, 11 papers in Mathematical Physics and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Walter L. Smith's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (8 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (6 papers) and Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (4 papers). Walter L. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (8 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (6 papers) and Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (4 papers). Walter L. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hungary. Walter L. Smith's co-authors include David R. Cox, William E. Wilkinson, M. R. Leadbetter, Holbrooke S. Seltzer, C. C. Heyde, Lajos Takács, Sujit Basu, J. Gani, H. Fleming and Robert Lund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

Walter L. Smith

43 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Regenerative stochastic processes

1955 489 citations Walter L. Smith Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter L. Smith United States	17	504	483	472	468	272	46	2.1k
Erhan Çınlar United States	21	419 0.8×	552 1.1×	538 1.1×	518 1.1×	423 1.6×	57	2.2k
Lajos Takács United States	24	643 1.3×	1.4k 2.9×	502 1.1×	888 1.9×	160 0.6×	144	3.0k
S. Zacks United States	21	288 0.6×	337 0.7×	1.5k 3.1×	715 1.5×	103 0.4×	128	2.9k
Richard F. Serfozo United States	22	196 0.4×	1.0k 2.1×	272 0.6×	576 1.2×	138 0.5×	74	2.1k
Pierre Brémaud France	22	444 0.9×	871 1.8×	660 1.4×	808 1.7×	156 0.6×	58	3.9k
Allan Gut Sweden	22	852 1.7×	126 0.3×	807 1.7×	1.2k 2.6×	280 1.0×	88	2.4k
Ulrich Krengel Germany	18	892 1.8×	146 0.3×	417 0.9×	331 0.7×	33 0.1×	56	1.7k
A. V. Skorokhod United States	20	940 1.9×	213 0.4×	483 1.0×	472 1.0×	21 0.1×	64	2.9k
Stan Zachary United Kingdom	21	230 0.5×	292 0.6×	261 0.6×	371 0.8×	76 0.3×	52	1.6k
Anthony G. Pakes Australia	27	1.4k 2.7×	476 1.0×	1.2k 2.5×	969 2.1×	36 0.1×	184	2.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Smith, Walter L.. (2010). An Analysis of the Purchase of the Plum Creek Water System in Kyle, Texas. 1 indexed citations

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Lund, Robert & Walter L. Smith. (1997). A comparison of convergence rates for three models in the theory of dams. Journal of Applied Probability. 34(1). 74–83.

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Smith, Walter L., et al.. (1986). On transient regenerative processes. Journal of Applied Probability. 23(1). 52–70. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1978). Harold Hotelling 1895-1973. The Annals of Statistics. 6(6). 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1972). On the tails of queueing-time distributions. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 5 indexed citations

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Gani, J., Walter L. Smith, & William E. Wilkinson. (1968). Proceedings of the Symposium on Congestion Theory. Econometrica. 36(1). 207–207. 7 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L. & M. R. Leadbetter. (1963). On the Renewal Function for the Weibull Distribution. Technometrics. 5(3). 393–396. 73 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L. & M. R. Leadbetter. (1963). On the Renewal Function for the Weibull Distribution. Technometrics. 5(3). 393–393. 25 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1961). A Note on the Renewal Function When the Mean Renewal Lifetime is Infinite. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 23(1). 230–237. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1961). On Some General Renewal Theorems for Nonidentically Distributed Variables. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 467–515. 11 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1959). Infinitesimal renewal processes.. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 9 indexed citations

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Seltzer, Holbrooke S. & Walter L. Smith. (1959). Plasma Insulin Activity after Glucose: An Index of Insulogenic Reserve in Normal and Diabetic Man. Diabetes. 8(6). 417–424. 62 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L., et al.. (1959). "Plasma Insulin Activity' in Human Diabetes During Hypoglycemic Response to Tolbutamide and Indole-3-Acetic Acid. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 100(1). 171–174. 3 indexed citations

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Takács, Lajos & Walter L. Smith. (1958). On a general probability theorem and its applications in the theory of the stochastic processes. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 54(2). 219–224. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1957). On renewal theory, counter problems, and quasi-Poisson processes. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 53(1). 175–193. 24 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1955). Regenerative stochastic processes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 232(1188). 6–31. 489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cox, David R. & Walter L. Smith. (1953). THE SUPERPOSITION OF SEVERAL STRICTLY PERIODIC SEQUENCES OF EVENTS. Biometrika. 40(1-2). 1–11. 62 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1953). II.—Asymptotic Renewal Theorems. 64(1). 9–48. 105 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1953). A Frequency-function form of the central limit theorem. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 49(3). 462–472. 16 indexed citations

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Smith, Walter L.. (1953). On the distribution of queueing times. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 49(3). 449–461. 124 indexed citations

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