Ya’acov Ritov

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
118 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Ya’acov Ritov is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Ya’acov Ritov has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Statistics and Probability, 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 16 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Ya’acov Ritov's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (52 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (20 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (17 papers). Ya’acov Ritov is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (52 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (20 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (17 papers). Ya’acov Ritov collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Australia. Ya’acov Ritov's co-authors include Peter J. Bickel, Alexandre B. Tsybakov, Jon A. Wellner, Chris A. J. Klaassen, Anton Schίck, James M. Robins, Eitan Greenshtein, Hagai Bergman, Tobias Rydén and Izhar Bar‐Gad and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Ya’acov Ritov

110 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Simultaneous analysis of Lasso and Dantzig selector

2009 1.2k citations Peter J. Bickel, Ya’acov Ritov et al. profile →
Efficient and Adaptive Estimation for Semiparametric Models.

1994 933 citations Peter J. Bickel, Chris A. J. Klaassen et al. profile →
Efficient and Adaptive Estimation for Semiparametric Models.

1994 792 citations Anton Schίck, Peter J. Bickel et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ya’acov Ritov Israel	31	3.4k	1.4k	574	457	433	118	5.9k
Ming Yuan United States	38	4.0k 1.2×	2.9k 2.1×	1.9k 3.4×	429 0.9×	310 0.7×	174	10.6k
Sara van de Geer Switzerland	22	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	873 1.5×	357 0.8×	222 0.5×	64	4.7k
Robert Serfling United States	27	4.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	104 0.2×	505 1.1×	888 2.1×	76	6.5k
Keith Knight Canada	21	2.1k 0.6×	828 0.6×	562 1.0×	495 1.1×	675 1.6×	37	4.2k
Hao Helen Zhang United States	32	1.9k 0.5×	983 0.7×	322 0.6×	232 0.5×	99 0.2×	114	4.5k
László Györfi Hungary	27	2.5k 0.7×	3.2k 2.3×	434 0.8×	268 0.6×	604 1.4×	113	6.5k
Victor Solo Australia	27	451 0.1×	614 0.4×	678 1.2×	472 1.0×	532 1.2×	234	3.9k
Yuhong Yang United States	28	1.5k 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	190 0.3×	387 0.8×	243 0.6×	124	3.9k
Elizaveta Levina United States	26	1.8k 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	509 0.9×	318 0.7×	288 0.7×	53	4.6k
Thriyambakam Krishnan Netherlands	3	1.2k 0.3×	1.9k 1.4×	163 0.3×	231 0.5×	167 0.4×	3	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ya’acov Ritov

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ya’acov Ritov

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ya’acov Ritov

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Goldberg, Yair, et al.. (2022). Self‐reporting and screening: Data with right‐censored, left‐censored, and complete observations. Statistics in Medicine. 41(18). 3561–3578. 4 indexed citations

Abramovich, Felix & Ya’acov Ritov. (2022). Statistical Theory.

Banerjee, Moulinath, et al.. (2019). Inference In General Single-Index Models Under High-dimensional Symmetric Designs. arXiv (Cornell University).

Rosenblatt, Jonathan D., Ya’acov Ritov, & Jelle J. Goeman. (2018). Discussion of ‘Gene hunting with hidden Markov model knockoffs’. Biometrika. 106(1). 29–33. 4 indexed citations

Brown, Lawrence D., Eitan Greenshtein, & Ya’acov Ritov. (2013). The Poisson Compound Decision Problem Revisited. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 108(502). 741–749. 15 indexed citations

Zakai, Alon & Ya’acov Ritov. (2009). Consistency and Localizability. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 10(30). 827–856. 19 indexed citations

Lach, Saul, Ya’acov Ritov, & Avi Simhon. (2008). The Transmission of Longevity Across Generations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Ritov, Ya’acov, et al.. (2008). Semiparametric shift estimation for alignment of ECG data. European Signal Processing Conference. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Bickel, Peter J. & Ya’acov Ritov. (2008). Response to Mease and Wyner, Evidence Contrary to the Statistical View of Boosting, JMLR 9:131-156, 2008: And Yet It Overfits. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 9. 181–186.

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Zakai, Alon & Ya’acov Ritov. (2008). How local should a learning method be. Conference on Learning Theory. 205–216. 3 indexed citations

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Ritov, Ya’acov, et al.. (2008). Semiparametric density estimation of shifts between curves. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Yair, Alon Zakai, Dan Kushnir, & Ya’acov Ritov. (2008). Manifold Learning: The Price of Normalization. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 9(63). 1909–1939. 45 indexed citations

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Bickel, Peter J., Ya’acov Ritov, & Alon Zakai. (2006). Some Theory for Generalized Boosting Algorithms. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 7(25). 705–732. 32 indexed citations

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Haitovsky, Yoel, Hans Rudolf Lerche, & Ya’acov Ritov. (2003). Foundations of statistical inference : proceedings of the Shoresh Conference 2000. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

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Levy, Moshe & Ya’acov Ritov. (2001). Portfolio Optimization with Many Assets: The Importance of Short-Selling. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7 indexed citations

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Schίck, Anton, Peter J. Bickel, Chris A. J. Klaassen, Ya’acov Ritov, & Jon A. Wellner. (1994). Efficient and Adaptive Estimation for Semiparametric Models.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 89(428). 1565–1565. 792 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ritov, Ya’acov & Zvi Gilula. (1993). Analysis of Contingency Tables by Correspondence Models Subject to Order Constraints. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 88(424). 1380–1387. 36 indexed citations

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Assaf, David, Moshe Pollak, & Ya’acov Ritov. (1992). A New Look at Warning and Action Lines of Surveillance Schemes. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 87(419). 889–895. 6 indexed citations

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Haviv, Moshe, Ya’acov Ritov, & Uriel G. Rothblum. (1992). Taylor expansions of eigenvalues of perturbed matrices with applications to spectral radii of nonnegative matrices. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 168. 159–188. 17 indexed citations

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Bickel, Peter J. & Ya’acov Ritov. (1988). Estimating integrated squared density derivatives. UC Berkeley. 14 indexed citations

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