Overview
Bradley Efron is an American statistician at Stanford University, one of the most influential statisticians of the modern era. He is best known for inventing the bootstrap, and for foundational work on empirical Bayes, shrinkage estimation, and large-scale inference.
Key Contributions / Features
- With Carl Morris, the empirical-Bayes interpretation and practical development of Stein's shrinkage estimator (Efron-Morris 1975).
- The bootstrap (Efron 1979) and extensive work on resampling, the jackknife, and computer-intensive inference; later work on large-scale/empirical-Bayes multiple testing.
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