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James R. Wallis

JR

58

Publications

15.7K

Citations

44

H-Index

1961

Active since

Affiliations

IBM (United States)(Current)

Yale University

Institute of Hydrology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Princeton University

IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

James R. Wallis is an author at IBM (United States) specializing in engineering, statistics, and geography.

Top concepts

EngineeringGeographyStatisticsHydrologyEarth ScienceStatistical InferenceHydrometeorologyFlood Risk ManagementWater ResourcesClimate Change

Publications per year

1961–2011

58

Publications

58

Some Ecological Consequences of a Computer Model of Forest Growth

Daniel B. Botkin, J. F. Janak, James R. Wallis · Journal of Ecology · 1972 · 1.3K citations

Computer Simulation, Engineering, Ecological Simulation +12

Estimation of the Generalized Extreme-Value Distribution by the Method of Probability-Weighted Moments

J. R. M. Hosking, James R. Wallis, Eric F. Wood · Technometrics · 1985 · 1.3K citations

Extreme Value Theory, Density Estimation, Engineering +14

Probability weighted moments: Definition and relation to parameters of several distributions expressable in inverse form

J. Arthur Greenwood, Jurate M. Landwehr, N. C. Matalas et al. · Water Resources Research · 1979 · 1.2K citations

More Conventional Means, Large Deviations, Measure Theory +14

Noah, Joseph, and Operational Hydrology

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, James R. Wallis · Water Resources Research · 1968 · 1.1K citations

Climate Sciences, Meteorology, Hydrometeorology +15

Robustness of the rescaled range R/S in the measurement of noncyclic long run statistical dependence

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, James R. Wallis · Water Resources Research · 1969 · 1K citations

Engineering, Measurement, Rare Event Estimation +19

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