William Q. Meeker

11.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
238 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

William Q. Meeker is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, William Q. Meeker has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Statistics and Probability, 94 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 88 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in William Q. Meeker's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (86 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (84 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (75 papers). William Q. Meeker is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (86 papers), Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (84 papers) and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design (75 papers). William Q. Meeker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Switzerland. William Q. Meeker's co-authors include Luis A. Escobar, Gerald J. Hahn, Wayne Nelson, Yili Hong, Francis Pascual, Jason R. Jones, Ulrike Genschel, Ying Shi, Shuen‐Lin Jeng and Michael S. Hamada and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

William Q. Meeker

218 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Statistical Methods for Reliability Data

1998 784 citations Wayne Nelson, William Q. Meeker et al. Technometrics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Q. Meeker United States	48	3.8k	3.3k	3.1k	1.2k	913	238	8.0k
Wayne Nelson United States	32	5.0k 1.3×	4.1k 1.2×	3.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	703 0.8×	90	9.1k
Jerald F. Lawless Canada	46	7.1k 1.9×	2.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	222 0.2×	166	12.4k
Nozer D. Singpurwalla United States	38	2.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	690 0.6×	236 0.3×	178	5.8k
Lee J. Bain United States	36	2.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	706 0.2×	509 0.4×	386 0.4×	121	6.8k
Luis A. Escobar United States	24	1.5k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	405 0.3×	230 0.3×	76	3.4k
J.C. Helton United States	37	461 0.1×	5.6k 1.7×	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	554 0.6×	169	9.7k
Enrique Castillo Spain	45	992 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	415 0.1×	513 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	245	7.6k
Alice E. Smith United States	41	366 0.1×	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.6×	540 0.5×	150 0.2×	242	8.7k
George C. Runger United States	48	2.4k 0.6×	4.4k 1.3×	205 0.1×	952 0.8×	303 0.3×	183	10.7k
Ray E. Schafer United States	14	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	777 0.2×	335 0.3×	227 0.2×	44	3.6k

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Erali, Richard A., Steven D. Forsythe, William Q. Meeker, et al.. (2025). Biofabrication of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma tumor organoids and assessment of response to systemic therapy. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 35889–35889.

Lewis‐Beck, Colin, et al.. (2023). Rejoinder to “Specifying Prior Distribution in Reliability Applications”. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. 40(1). 130–143.

Doganaksoy, Necip, Gerald J. Hahn, & William Q. Meeker. (2017). Fallacies of Statistical Significance. Quality progress. 50(11). 56. 1 indexed citations

Meeker, William Q., Gerald J. Hahn, & Luis A. Escobar. (2017). Statistical Intervals. Wiley series in probability and statistics. 140 indexed citations

Doganaksoy, Necip, Gerald J. Hahn, & William Q. Meeker. (2016). Identify and Act: Performing product life data analysis with unidentified subpopulations. Quality progress. 49(12). 61.

Meeker, William Q., et al.. (2015). Quantile Probability of Detection: Distinguishing Between Uncertainty and Variability in Nondestructive Testing. Materials Evaluation. 73(1). 1 indexed citations

Doganaksoy, Necip, Gerald J. Hahn, & William Q. Meeker. (2014). Timely Reliability Assessment: Using destructive degradation tests. Quality progress. 47(11). 52. 1 indexed citations

Meeker, William Q., et al.. (2014). More pitfalls of accelerated tests. Quality Engineering. 59(4). 349–352. 3 indexed citations

Meeker, William Q., et al.. (2012). Distinguishing between uncertainty and variability in nondestructive evaluation. AIP conference proceedings. 1725–1732. 3 indexed citations

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Doganaksoy, Necip, Gerald J. Hahn, & William Q. Meeker. (2006). How To Analyze Reliability Data For Repairable Products. Quality progress. 39(6). 93. 1 indexed citations

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Doganaksoy, Necip, Gerald J. Hahn, & William Q. Meeker. (2006). Improving Reliability Through Warranty Data Analysis. Quality progress. 39(11). 63. 2 indexed citations

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Meeker, William Q., Gerald J. Hahn, & Necip Doganaksoy. (2004). Planning Life Tests For Reliability Demonstration. Quality progress. 37(8). 80–82. 11 indexed citations

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Doganaksoy, Necip, Gerald J. Hahn, & William Q. Meeker. (2003). Reliability analysis by failure mode. Quality Engineering. 48(1). 101–102. 16 indexed citations

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Doganaksoy, Necip, William Q. Meeker, & Gerald J. Hahn. (2003). Speedier Reliability Analysis. Quality progress. 36(6). 58–63. 3 indexed citations

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Meeker, William Q., et al.. (2002). A Methodology for the Assessment of the Capability of Inspection Systems for Detection of Subsurface Flaws in Aircraft Turbine Engine Components. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations

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Escobar, Luis A. & William Q. Meeker. (2001). THE ASYMPTOTIC EQUIVALENCE OF THE FISHER INFORMATION MATRICES FOR TYPE I AND TYPE II CENSORED DATA FROM LOCATION-SCALE FAMILIES. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 30(10). 2211–2225. 17 indexed citations

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Meeker, William Q., et al.. (1994). Optimum Accelerated Life Tests Wth a Nonconstant Scale Parameter. Technometrics. 36(1). 71–83. 81 indexed citations

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Nelson, Wayne & William Q. Meeker. (1978). Theory for Optimum Accelerated Censored Life Tests for Weibull and Extreme Value Distributions. Technometrics. 20(2). 171–177. 139 indexed citations

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Boardman, Thomas J., William Q. Meeker, Gerald J. Hahn, & Paul I. Feder. (1977). New Developments in Statistical Computing: New Bias Evaluation Features of EXPLOR—A Program for Assessing Experimental Design Properties. The American Statistician. 31(2). 95–96. 1 indexed citations

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Meeker, William Q. & Gerald J. Hahn. (1977). Asymptotically Optimum Over-Stress Tests to Estimate the Survival Probability at a Condition with a Low Expected Failure Probability. Technometrics. 19(4). 381–399. 43 indexed citations

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