A collection of journal articles by reknowned statistician Bradley Efron. Collects the most important papers of Bradley Efron in one place. Adds comments by Efron and other important statisticians INDICE: 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 manywords 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.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-75691-2
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 520
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés