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 ...

An approach combining saddlepoint approximation and importance resampling is developed for approximating the bootstrap distribution of a statistic which is a smooth function of sample means. The idea ...

We propose a novel bootstrap hypothesis testing approach for the problem of testing a null hypothesis of a common mean direction, mean polar axis, or mean shape across several populations of real unit ...

Individual prediction uncertainty is a key aspect of clinical prediction model performance; however, standard performance metrics do not capture it. Consequently, a model might offer sufficient ...