Walter Zucchini

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Walter Zucchini is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Zucchini has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Statistics and Probability, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Walter Zucchini's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (7 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (7 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (5 papers). Walter Zucchini is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (7 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (7 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (5 papers). Walter Zucchini collaborates with scholars based in Germany, South Africa and Australia. Walter Zucchini's co-authors include Iain L. MacDonald, Heinz Linhart, David L. Borchers, Roland Langrock, Les G Underhill, S. T. Buckland, Shane P. Pederson, Mary Lou Thompson, Peter Guttorp and June M. Juritz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Walter Zucchini

54 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Model selection

1986 627 citations Heinz Linhart, Walter Zucchini profile →
Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R

2009 474 citations Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald profile →

Peers

Walter Zucchini

ECOLO

GPC

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Thomas M. Loughin United States

A. H. Welsh Australia

Jennifer A. Hoeting United States

Robert A. Koyak United States

David J. Groggel United States

Julian J. Faraway United States

G. P. Patil United States

Francisco Cribari‐Neto Brazil

Brian J. Reich United States

Thomas Kneib Germany

Thomas M. Loughin United States

Walter Zucchini

712 ×0.7

ECOLO

1.2k ×1.2

507 ×0.6

590 ×1.1

GPC

374 ×1.0

NLC

Citations per year, relative to Walter Zucchini Walter Zucchini (= 1×) peers Thomas M. Loughin

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Zucchini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter Zucchini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Zucchini

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Walter Zucchini. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Walter Zucchini based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Walter Zucchini. Walter Zucchini is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kneib, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Vulnerability to poverty revisited: Flexible modeling and better predictive performance. The Journal of Economic Inequality. 16(3). 439–454. 17 indexed citations

Dai, Jing, Stefan Sperlich, & Walter Zucchini. (2016). A Simple Method for Predicting Distributions by Means of Covariates with Examples from Poverty and Health Economics. Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics. 152(1). 49–80. 2 indexed citations

Neykov, Neyko, Plamen Neytchev, & Walter Zucchini. (2014). Stochastic daily precipitation model with a heavy-tailed component. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 14(9). 2321–2335. 11 indexed citations

Nguefack‐Tsague, Georges, Stephan Klasen, & Walter Zucchini. (2011). On Weighting the Components of the Human Development Index: A Statistical Justification. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 12(2). 183–202. 67 indexed citations

Colina, Matteo, Walter Zucchini, Giovanni Ciancìo, et al.. (2011). The Evolution of Adult-Onset Still Disease: An Observational and Comparative Study in a Cohort of 76 Italian Patients. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism. 41(2). 279–285. 55 indexed citations

Nguefack‐Tsague, Georges & Walter Zucchini. (2011). Post-model selection inference and model averaging. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(2-Sp). 5 indexed citations

Kiffner, Christian, Walter Zucchini, Torsten Vor, et al.. (2010). Determinants of tick-borne encephalitis in counties of southern Germany, 2001-2008. International Journal of Health Geographics. 9(1). 42–42. 34 indexed citations

Gadow, Klaus von, et al.. (2010). Growth and survival of Eucalyptus grandis - a study based on modelling lifetime distributions.. GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 2(2). 86–96. 3 indexed citations

Zucchini, Walter, David Raubenheimer, & Iain L. MacDonald. (2007). Modeling Time Series of Animal Behavior by Means of a Latent‐State Model with Feedback. Biometrics. 64(3). 807–815. 41 indexed citations

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Lee, Barry B., Hao Sun, & Walter Zucchini. (2007). The temporal properties of the response of macaque ganglion cells and central mechanisms of flicker detection. Journal of Vision. 7(14). 1–1. 82 indexed citations

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Heller, Gillian Z., et al.. (2006). ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF VISITS TO THE DOCTOR. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 48(2). 213–224. 3 indexed citations

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Borchers, David L., Walter Zucchini, & Rachel M. Fewster. (1998). Mark-Recapture Models for Line Transect Surveys. Biometrics. 54(4). 1207–1207. 126 indexed citations

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Pegram, Geoffrey, et al.. (1997). Patching rainfall data using regression methods. 2. Comparisons of accuracy, bias and efficiency. Journal of Hydrology. 198(1-4). 308–318. 15 indexed citations

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Zucchini, Walter & Peter Guttorp. (1991). A Hidden Markov Model for Space‐Time Precipitation. Water Resources Research. 27(8). 1917–1923. 132 indexed citations

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Schall, Robert & Walter Zucchini. (1990). MODEL SELECTION AND THE ESTIMATION OF ODDS RATIOS IN THE PRESENCE OF EXTRANEOUS FACTORS. Statistics in Medicine. 9(10). 1131–1141. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, Mary Lou & Walter Zucchini. (1989). On the statistical analysis of ROC curves. Statistics in Medicine. 8(10). 1277–1290. 156 indexed citations

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Zucchini, Walter & Peter Adamson. (1989). Bootstrap confidence intervals for design storms from exceedance series. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 34(1). 41–48. 36 indexed citations

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Fabricius, Christo, H. J. van Hensbergen, & Walter Zucchini. (1989). A discriminant function for identifying hybrid bontebok x blesbok populations. 19(2). 61–66. 10 indexed citations

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Zucchini, Walter, et al.. (1987). Parameter Estimation for the Sichel Distribution and its Multivariate Extension. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 82(399). 938–944. 69 indexed citations

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Linhart, Heinz & Walter Zucchini. (1986). Finite sample selection criteria for multinomial models. Statistische Hefte. 27(1). 173–178. 10 indexed citations

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