Y. L. Tong

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Y. L. Tong is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Y. L. Tong has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Statistics and Probability, 16 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Y. L. Tong's work include Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (16 papers), Probability and Risk Models (14 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (11 papers). Y. L. Tong is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (16 papers), Probability and Risk Models (14 papers) and Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (11 papers). Y. L. Tong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and United Kingdom. Y. L. Tong's co-authors include Alan Julian Izenman, Morris L. Eaton, John Bibby, Philip J. Boland, Frank Proschan, Moshe Shaked, Iris Tien, J. George Shanthikumar, M. L. Eaton and Ingram Olkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and Biometrics.

In The Last Decade

Y. L. Tong

49 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Y. L. Tong United States	16	678	482	337	248	201	56	1.8k
Erhan Çınlar United States	21	538 0.8×	518 1.1×	214 0.6×	173 0.7×	423 2.1×	57	2.2k
S. Zacks United States	21	1.5k 2.2×	715 1.5×	641 1.9×	505 2.0×	103 0.5×	128	2.9k
Allan Gut Sweden	22	807 1.2×	1.2k 2.5×	232 0.7×	316 1.3×	280 1.4×	88	2.4k
Walter L. Smith United States	17	472 0.7×	468 1.0×	161 0.5×	203 0.8×	272 1.4×	46	2.1k
Arjun K. Gupta United States	16	1.0k 1.5×	248 0.5×	318 0.9×	442 1.8×	46 0.2×	97	1.9k
Morris L. Eaton United States	22	1.2k 1.7×	446 0.9×	270 0.8×	536 2.2×	33 0.2×	71	2.3k
Bruce Jay Collings United States	13	391 0.6×	284 0.6×	549 1.6×	409 1.6×	36 0.2×	21	2.6k
Antonio Di Crescenzo Italy	23	1.0k 1.5×	288 0.6×	498 1.5×	155 0.6×	256 1.3×	130	1.9k
Gerald S. Rogers United States	13	837 1.2×	391 0.8×	336 1.0×	455 1.8×	38 0.2×	30	1.9k
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh Canada	22	1.3k 2.0×	173 0.4×	483 1.4×	227 0.9×	60 0.3×	117	1.8k

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Zuo, Ran, et al.. (2025). Region-optimal Gaussian process surrogate model via Dirichlet process for cold-flow and combustion emulations. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 439. 117894–117894.

Tong, Y. L. & Iris Tien. (2019). Probability Propagation Method for Reliability Assessment of Acyclic Directed Networks. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A Civil Engineering. 5(3). 3 indexed citations

Tong, Y. L. & Iris Tien. (2019). Analytical probability propagation method for reliability analysis of general complex networks. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 189. 21–30. 7 indexed citations

Tong, Y. L.. (1997). The role of the covariance matrix in the least-squares estimation for a common mean. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 264. 313–323. 4 indexed citations

Tong, Y. L.. (1997). Some majorization orderings of heterogeneity in a class of epidemics. Journal of Applied Probability. 34(1). 84–93. 5 indexed citations

Shaked, Moshe, J. George Shanthikumar, & Y. L. Tong. (1995). Parametric Schur Convexity and Arrangement Monotonicity Properties of Partial Sums. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 53(2). 293–310. 20 indexed citations

Tong, Y. L.. (1994). Some recent developments on majorization inequalities in probability and statistics. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 199. 69–90. 18 indexed citations

Olkin, Ingram & Y. L. Tong. (1994). Positive Dependence of a Class of Multivariate Exponential Distributions. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 32(4). 965–974. 7 indexed citations

Boland, Philip J., Frank Proschan, & Y. L. Tong. (1992). A stochastic ordering of partial sums of independent random variables and of some random processes. Journal of Applied Probability. 29(3). 645–654. 4 indexed citations

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Shaked, Moshe & Y. L. Tong. (1990). Positive dependence of random variables with a common marginal distribution. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 19(11). 4299–4313. 1 indexed citations

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Tong, Y. L.. (1989). Inequalities for a Class of Positively Dependent Random Variables with a Common Marginal. The Annals of Statistics. 17(1). 13 indexed citations

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Shaked, Moshe & Y. L. Tong. (1988). Inequalities for probability contents of convex sets via geometric average. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 24(2). 330–340. 4 indexed citations

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Boland, Philip J., Frank Proschan, & Y. L. Tong. (1988). Moment and Geometric Probability Inequalities Arising from Arrangement Increasing Functions. The Annals of Probability. 16(1). 19 indexed citations

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Tong, Y. L. & M. L. Eaton. (1988). Lectures on Topics in Probability Inequalities.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83(403). 904–904. 12 indexed citations

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Boland, Philip J., Frank Proschan, & Y. L. Tong. (1987). Fault Diversity in Software Reliability. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. 1(2). 175–187. 8 indexed citations

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Shaked, Moshe & Y. L. Tong. (1985). Some partial orderings of exchangeable random variables by positive dependence. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 17(3). 333–349. 20 indexed citations

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Milton, Roy C., Y. L. Tong, & V. R. R. Uppuluri. (1985). Milton Sobel: An Appreciation. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences. 5(3-4). 372–394. 1 indexed citations

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Tong, Y. L.. (1983). Some Distribution Properties of the Sample Species-Diversity Indices and Their Applications. Biometrics. 39(4). 999–999. 15 indexed citations

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Tong, Y. L.. (1978). An Adaptive Solution to Ranking and Selection Problems. The Annals of Statistics. 6(3). 6 indexed citations

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Tong, Y. L.. (1976). Parameter Estimation in Studying Circadian Rhythms. Biometrics. 32(1). 85–85. 105 indexed citations

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