The science of Bradley Efron. Selected Papers. Edited by Carl N. Morris and Robert Tibshirani. (Q2465369)

A collection of journal articles of the renowned statistician Bradley Efron. Contents: Foreword by Bradley Efron. 1. From 1965: The convex hull of a random set of points; Introduced by Tom Cover. 2. From 1971: Forcing a sequential experiment to be balanced; Introduced by Herman Chernoff. 3. From 1975: Defining the curvature of a statistical problem (with applications to second order efficiency); Introduced by Rob Kass and Paul Vos. 4. From 1975: Data analysis using Stein's estimator and its generalizations (with Carl Morris); Introduced by John Rolph. 5. From 1976: Estimating the number of unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know? (with Ronald Thisted); Introduced by Peter McCullagh. 6. From 1977: The efficiency of Cox's likelihood function for censored data; Introduced by John Kalbfleisch. 7. From 1977: Stein's paradox in statistics (with Carl Morris); Introduced by Jim Berger. 8. From 1978: Assessing the accuracy of the maximum likelihood estimator: Observed versus expected Fisher information (with David V. Hinkley); Introduced by Thomas DiCiccio. 9. From 1979: Bootstrap methods: Another look at the jackknife; Introduced by David Hinkley . 10. From 1981: The jackknife estimate of variance (with Charles Stein); Introduced by Jun Shao and C.F. Jeff Wu. 11. From 1982: The Jackknife, the Bootstrap and Other Resampling Plans [excerpt]; Introduced by Peter Hall . 12. From 1983: Estimating the error rate of a prediction rule: Improvement on cross-validation; Introduced by Trevor Hastie. 13. From 1986: Why isn't everyone a Bayesian?; Introduced by Larry Wasserman. 14. From 1987: Better bootstrap confidence intervals; Introduced by Peter Bickel. 15. From 1993: An Introduction to the Bootstrap (with Robert Tibshirani) [excerpt]; Introduced by Rudy Beran. 16. From 1996: Using specially designed exponential families for density estimation (with Robert Tibshirani); Introduced by Nancy Reid. 17. From 1996: Bootstrap confidence levels for phylogenetic trees (correction) (with Elizabeth Halloran and Susan Holmes); Introduced by Joe Felsenstein. 18. From 1998: R. A. Fisher in the 21st century; Introduced by Stephen Stigler. 19. From 2001: Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment (with Robert Tibshirani, John D. Storey and Virginia Tusher); Introduced by Rafael Irizarry . 20. From 2004: Least angle regression (with Trevor Hastie, Iain Johnstone and Robert Tibshirani); Introduced by David Madigan. 21. From 2004: Large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing: The choice of a null hypothesis; Introduced by Michael Newton. President's Corner by Bradley Efron (AMSTAT News, April 2004).