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53
Citations
11269
World Ranking
900
National Ranking
431

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1971 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Joseph L. Gastwirth is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences, with notable focus on statistics and probability, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general health professions, and other related subfields.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • "A statistical examination of wealth inequality within the Forbes 400 richest families in the United States from 2000 to 2023," 2024, METRON
  • "Comparing the Secular Increasing Trend and Effect of the Response to the 2008 Financial Recession on Wealth Inequality in the U.S. with Other Nations Using the Median-based Gini Index," 2022, Journal of Quantitative Economics
  • "On Bootstrap Tests of Symmetry About an Unknown Median," 2021, Journal of Data Science
  • "On the capacity of the Gini index to represent income distributions," 2020, METRON
  • "On the interplay between practical and statistical significance in equal employment cases," 2021, Law Probability and Risk

Gastwirth has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Weiwen Miao, Qing Pan, Qing Shi, Barry I. Graubard, and Tian Zheng.

The research topics covered by Gastwirth include:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Statistics Education and Methodologies
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Gastwirth's frequent publication venues include:

  • Statistics and Public Policy
  • Law Probability and Risk
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • METRON
  • Journal of Data Science

The scientist has been recognized with several fellowships, including Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1971, and Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1970.

Best Publications

  • The Estimation of the Lorenz Curve and Gini Index

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • The Impact of Levene’s Test of Equality of Variances on Statistical Theory and Practice

    Joseph L. Gastwirth;Yulia R. Gel;Weiwen Miao

  • A General Definition of the Lorenz Curve

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • Asymptotic Distribution of Linear Combinations of Functions of Order Statistics with Applications to Estimation

    Herman Chernoff;Joseph L. Gastwirth;M. V. Johns

  • Trend tests for case-control studies of genetic markers: power, sample size and robustness.

    Boris Freidlin;Gang Zheng;Zhaohai Li;Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • Non-parametric Statistical Methods

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  • ON ROBUST PROCEDURES

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • A Scale-Free Goodness-Of-Fit Test for the Exponential Distribution Based on the Gini Statistic

    M. H. Gail;J. L. Gastwirth

  • Screening without a “Gold Standard”: The Hui-Walter Paradigm Revisited

    Wesley O. Johnson;Joseph L. Gastwirth;Larry M. Pearson

  • A robust modification of the Jarque–Bera test of normality

    Yulia R. Gel;Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • The Use of Maximin Efficiency Robust Tests in Combining Contingency Tables and Survival Analysis

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • On a Simple Estimate of the Reciprocal of the Density Function

    Daniel A. Bloch;Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • Estimation of the prevalence of a rare disease, preserving the anonymity of the subjects by group testing: application to estimating the prevalence of aids antibodies in blood donors

    Joseph L. Gastwirth;Patricia A. Hammick

  • The Statistical Precision of Medical Screening Procedures: Application to Polygraph and AIDS Antibodies Test Data

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • lawstat: An R Package for Law, Public Policy and Biostatistics

    Wallace Hui;Yulia R. Gel;Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • The Behavior of Robust Estimators on Dependent Data

    Herman Rubin;Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • Dual and simultaneous sensitivity analysis for matched pairs

    Joseph L. Gastwirth;Abba M. Krieger;Paul R. Rosenbaum

  • Screening with Cost-Effective Quality Control: Potential Applications to HIV and Drug Testing

    J. L. Gastwirth;Wesley O. Johnson

  • Percentile Modifications of Two Sample Rank Tests

    Joseph L. Gastwirth

  • Robust Genomic Control for Association Studies

    Gang Zheng;Boris Freidlin;Joseph L. Gastwirth

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Rosenbaum
Paul R. Rosenbaum University of Pennsylvania
Mitchell H. Gail
Mitchell H. Gail National Institutes of Health
Wesley O. Johnson
Wesley O. Johnson University of California, Irvine
Barry I. Graubard
Barry I. Graubard National Institutes of Health
Dylan S. Small
Dylan S. Small University of Pennsylvania
Jane-Ling Wang
Jane-Ling Wang University of California, Davis
Nozer D. Singpurwalla
Nozer D. Singpurwalla George Washington University
Barry C. Arnold
Barry C. Arnold University of California, Riverside
Ričardas Zitikis
Ričardas Zitikis University of Western Ontario
Alisa M. Goldstein
Alisa M. Goldstein National Institutes of Health

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