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 ...

This paper presents a quasi Monte Carlo approach in the generation of a replication design for the bootstrap variance estimation of stratified sampling designs. The proposed method makes use of the ...

US statistician Bradley Efron at Stanford University in California has won the 2018 International Prize in Statistics for pioneering the ‘bootstrap’ method for measuring the reliability of ...