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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Suppose that inference about parameters of interest is to be based on an unbiased estimating function that is U-statistic of degree 1 or 2. We ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Statistics derived from the eigenvalues of sample covarian1ce matrices are called spectral statistics, and they play a central role in ...

US statistician Bradley Efron at Stanford University in California has won the 2018 International Prize in Statistics for pioneering the ‘bootstrap’ method for measuring the reliability of small data ...