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 ...

The boostrap method works for both smooth and nonsmooth statistics, and replaces theoretical derivations by routine computations. With survey data sampled using a stratified multistage sampling design ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 64, No. 1 (2002), pp. 31-49 (19 pages) The single bootstrap is implemented by using a saddlepoint approximation to ...

For certain classes of data that may be very expensive or difficult to obtain, a new statistical technique may provide useful information from a single data run by allowing meaningful re-sampling. The ...