2026 Steffen L. Lauritzen: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	53	870	743	6	5	164	27040

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Mathematics

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27040

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
1991 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Steffen L. Lauritzen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of their work include Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Statistical Methods and Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Advanced Topology and Set Theory, Advanced Banach Space Theory, and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods.

Lauritzen has contributed to numerous publications in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology), arXiv (Cornell University), The Annals of Applied Probability, The Annals of Statistics, and Annals of Breast Surgery.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lauritzen highlight a range of topics and venues:

"Conditional independence in max-linear Bayesian networks," 2022, The Annals of Applied Probability
"Identifiability and estimation of recursive max-linear models," 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
"Locally associated graphical models and mixed convex exponential families," 2022, The Annals of Statistics
"An observational study comparing the SPY-Elite® vs. the SPY-PHI QP system in breast reconstructive surgery," 2022, Annals of Breast Surgery
"On some algorithms for estimation in Gaussian graphical models," 2024, Biometrika

Among frequent co-authors, Lauritzen has collaborated with Aurore Delaigle, Claudia Klüppelberg, Piotr Zwiernik, Søren Højsgaard, and S. Wood.

Lauritzen's awards include the Wald Memorial Lecturer (2012), Fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2011), and membership of Academia Europaea (1991).

Best Publications

Local computations with probabilities on graphical structures and their application to expert systems

S. L. Lauritzen;D. J. Spiegelhalter

5785
Citations
Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems: Exact Computational Methods for Bayesian Networks

Robert G. Cowell;A. Philip Dawid;Steffen L. Lauritzen;David J. Spiegelhalter

3204
Citations
Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems

Robert G. Cowell;Steffen L. Lauritzen;A. Philip David;David J. Spiegelhalter

2525
Citations
The EM algorithm for graphical association models with missing data

Steffen L. Lauritzen

1130
Citations
Bayesian analysis in expert systems

David J. Spiegelhalter;A. Philip Dawid;Steffen L. Lauritzen;Robert G. Cowell

1078
Citations
Bayesian updating in causal probabilistic networks by local computations

Finn V. Jensen;Steffen L. Lauritzen;Kristian G. Olesen

983
Citations
Graphical Models for Associations between Variables, some of which are Qualitative and some Quantitative

S. L. Lauritzen;N. Wermuth

970
Citations
Independence properties of directed markov fields

S. L. Lauritzen;A. P. Dawid;B. N. Larsen;H.-G. Leimer

796
Citations
Sequential updating of conditional probabilities on directed graphical structures

David J. Spiegelhalter;Steffen L. Lauritzen

793
Citations
Hyper Markov Laws in the Statistical Analysis of Decomposable Graphical Models

A.P. Dawid;Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen

695
Citations
Markov Fields and Log-Linear Interaction Models for Contingency Tables

J. N. Darroch;S. L. Lauritzen;T. P. Speed

688
Citations
Propagation of Probabilities, Means, and Variances in Mixed Graphical Association Models

Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen

659
Citations
Feedforward Neural Network Methodology

Terrence L. Fine;S. L. Lauritzen;M. Jordan;J. Lawless

653
Citations
Computer Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring: A Statistical Viewpoint

David J. Marchette;V. Nair;M. Jordan;S. L. Lauritzen

404
Citations
Stable local computation with conditional Gaussian distributions

Steffen L. Lauritzen;Frank Jensen

370
Citations
On Substantive Research Hypotheses, Conditional Independence Graphs and Graphical Chain Models

Nanny Wermuth;Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen

350
Citations
Chain graph models and their causal interpretations

Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen;Thomas S. Richardson

338
Citations
Graphical and recursive models for contingency tables

Nanny Wermuth;Steffen L. Lauritzen

316
Citations
Representing and Solving Decision Problems with Limited Information

Steffen L. Lauritzen;Dennis Nilsson

288
Citations
Causal Inference from Graphical Models

Steffen L. Lauritzen

269
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Wainwright MIT

Mathias Drton Technical University of Munich

A. P. Dawid University of Cambridge

Nanny Wermuth Chalmers University of Technology

Finn Verner Jensen Aalborg University

Claudia Klüppelberg Technical University of Munich

Alessandro Rinaldo The University of Texas at Austin

Thomas S. Richardson University of Washington

Michael I. Jordan University of California, Berkeley

Terence P. Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

External Links

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