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Bradley Efron | |
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| Born | May 24, 1938 |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology, Stanford University |
| Known for | Bootstrap method |
| Awards | National Medal of Science (2005) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016) International Prize in Statistics (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Problems in Probability of a Geometric Nature (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rupert G. Miller Herbert Solomon[citation needed] |
| Doctoral students | Norman 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]
- ^ Bradley Efron Curriculum Vitae Archived 2010-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Leaders Reminisce: Brad Efron", Amstat News.
- ^ Efron, B. (1979). "Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife". The Annals of Statistics. 7 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1214/aos/1176344552.
- ^ 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.