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 ...

We introduce a new computer-intensive method to estimate the distribution of robust regression estimates. The basic idea behind our method is to bootstrap a reweighted representation of the estimates.

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 ...