--- title: "Statistics and Probability — papers — Elamur Research" description: "Statistics and Probability: 8 papers of the Elamur Research library, the most cited first — our summary of each, its ideas, references and who cites it." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/statistics-and-probability/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/statistics-and-probability/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [shelves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/) / [Mathematics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) / Statistics and Probability # ➗ Statistics and Probability 8 papers · the most cited first · [all shelves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/) Statistics and Probability is a subfield of Mathematics in the OpenAlex classification of science. The topics most of its papers here are on: «Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods», «Advanced Causal Inference Techniques», «Probability and Statistical Research». ## Papers (8) 1. [**Bagging Predictors**Leo Breiman*1996 · 16,498 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/breiman-1996-bagging-predictors/) 2. [**Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes**Diederik P Kingma, Max Welling*2013 · 15,018 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kingma-2013-auto-encoding-variational-bayes/) 3. [**Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4**Douglas Bates, Martin Mächler, Ben Bolker, et al.*2015 · 2,925 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bates-2015-fitting-linear-mixed-effects-models/) 4. [**Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models**Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Shakir Mohamed, Daan Wierstra*2014 · 2,595 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rezende-2014-stochastic-backpropagation-approximate-inference-deep/) 5. [**Measures of Distributional Similarity**Lillian Lee*1999 · 654 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-1999-measures-distributional-similarity/) 6. [**Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo**Mark Johnson, Thomas Griffiths, Sharon Goldwater*2007 · 352 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-bayesian-inference-pcfgs-markov-chain/) 7. [**Assessing the Reliability of Statistical Software: Part I**B. D. McCullough*1998 · 165 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccullough-1998-assessing-reliability-statistical-software/) 8. [**Interpretability at Scale: Identifying Causal Mechanisms in Alpaca**Zhengxuan Wu, Atticus Geiger, Thomas Icard, et al.*2023 · 70 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2023-interpretability-scale-identifying-causal-mechanisms/) Updated 24 October 2026 - [← previous subfield Numerical Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/numerical-analysis/) - [↑ back to Mathematics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)