Interview Details

Title & Link

Bradley Efron (BS '60), Statistician - Heritage Project

Publish Date

September 7, 2022

Interviewees

Interviewers

Publisher

Caltech Heritage Project

Topics

Application of statistics to various fields

Bootstrapping methods in statistics

career trajectory

Debates in statistics like frequentists vs. Bayesians, prediction algorithms

Future book project on statistical thinking and noise in data

History of statistics at Stanford

Impact of bootstrap method on statistics and wider society

Interdisciplinary nature of statistics

Personal research on accuracy estimation, geometric probability, empirical Bayes

Reflections on career decisions and influences

Role of computers in statistics

Undergraduate experience at Caltech

Value of mathematics education

People Mentioned

Works Mentioned

A Trustworthy Jackknife

Computer Age Statistical Inference

Problems in Probability of a Geometric Nature

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