Bradley Efron

Bradley Efron
Born (1938-05-24) May 24, 1938 (age 86)
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology, Stanford University
Known forBootstrap method
AwardsNational Medal of Science (2005)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
International Prize in Statistics (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisProblems in Probability of a Geometric Nature (1964)
Doctoral advisorRupert G. Miller
Herbert Solomon[citation needed]
Doctoral studentsNorman Breslow
Robert Tibshirani
Samuel Kou
James H. Ware

Bradley Efron (/ˈɛfrən/; born May 24, 1938)[1] is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).[2] He is a past editor (for theory and methods) of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and he is the founding editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics.[2] Efron is also the recipient of many awards (see below).

Efron is especially known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique,[3] which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques, replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations.[4]

  1. ^ Bradley Efron Curriculum Vitae Archived 2010-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Leaders Reminisce: Brad Efron", Amstat News.
  3. ^ Efron, B. (1979). "Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife". The Annals of Statistics. 7 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1214/aos/1176344552.
  4. ^ Efron, Bradley (2013). "A 250-year argument: Belief, behavior, and the bootstrap". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 50 (1): 129–146. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-2012-01374-5.