The International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to Bradley Efron, professor of statistics and biomedical data science at Stanford University, in recognition of the "bootstrap," a method he ...

Just as we might consult multiple experts about a problem and then combine their advice to come to a consensus decision, repeated statistical analyses on the same data can be combined to form a single ...

Efron's nonparametric bootstrap method simulates the distributional properties of a statistic by repeated resampling of a given sample. A balanced bootstrap simulation is one in which each sample ...

Nonparametric methods form an important core of statistical techniques and are typically used when data do not meet parametric assumptions. Understanding the foundation of these methods, as well as ...

The parametric bootstrap can be used for the efficient computation of Bayes posterior distributions. Importance sampling formulas take on an easy form relating to the deviance in exponential families ...