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Bradley Efron (born May 1938) is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. In Statistics, bootstrapping is a modern computer-intensive general purpose approach to Statistical inference, falling within a broader class of resampling Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection analysis interpretation or explanation and presentation of Data. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques, replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations. Algebra is a branch of Mathematics concerning the study of structure, relation, and Quantity. On May 29, 2007, he was awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor by the United States, for his exceptional work in the field of Statistics (especially for his inventing of the bootstrapping methodology). Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in Science and Engineering who have made important [1]

Bradley Efron was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in May 1938, the son of Esther and Miles Efron. Saint Paul ( abbreviated St Paul) is the capital and second most populous city in the U He attended the California Institute of Technology, graduating in Mathematics in 1960. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena He arrived at Stanford in fall of 1960, earning his Ph. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in D. , under the direction of Rupert Miller and Herb Solomon, in the Department of Statistics.

He is currently a Professor of Statistics at Stanford. At Stanford he has been the Chair of the Department of Statistics, Associate Dean of Science, Chairman of the University Advisory Board, Chair of the Faculty Senate and Chair of the Undergraduate Program in Applied Mathematics. Applied mathematics is a branch of Mathematics that concerns itself with the mathematical techniques typically used in the application of mathematical knowledge to other domains

Efron holds the Max H. Stein endowed chair as Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford. He has won many honors, including a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Wilks Medal, the Parzen Prize, and the Rao Prize, Fisher, Rietz and Wald lecturer. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D The National Academy of Sciences (NAS is a corporation in the United States whose members serve Pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development dissemination and application of Statistics and The American Statistical Association (ASA, a scientific and educational society founded in Boston Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, is the second

He has made many important contributions to many areas of statistics. Efron's work has spanned both theoretical and applied topics, including empirical Bayes analysis (with Carl Morris), applications of differential geometry to statistical inference, the analysis of survival data, and inference for microarray gene expression data. Carl Morris is a professor in the Statistics Department of Harvard University and spent several years as a researcher for the RAND Corporation working on the Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses the methods of differential and integral Calculus to study problems in Geometry Inferential statistics or statistical induction comprises the use of Statistics to make Inferences concerning some unknown aspect of a Population He is the author of a classic monograph, The Jack-knife, the Bootstrap and Other Resampling Plans (1982) and has also co-authored (with R. Tibshirani) the text An Introduction to the Bootstrap (1994).


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