Science of Bradley Efron

From the reviews: "This Volume is a fine collection of 21 selected papers by Efron. One of the book's most interesting and important features is the formal introduction of each paper by a distinguished professional in the field... The editors did a wonderful job in selecting them... This volume contains a wealth of knowledge and important information for all of us!... In a nutshell the book is a must buy. I very much enjoyed reading this special edition, and I am sure you will too! It will be hard to find this much influential work in one place. This book is worth more than $149 U.S.!" (S. Ejaz Ahmed, Technometics, February 2009, Vol. 51, NO. 1) "The volume at hand, the first in Springer's new 'Selected Works' series, attempts to give a panoramic view of the work of an untiring statistics researcher, a living legend among our ranks. It is edited by Carl Morris of Harvard University and Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University, both long-time coauthors of Efron and among his closest collaborators. The editors chose 21 prominent works to include in this volume; in his Foreword, Efron calls these his 'best work so far' (!). ...However, what makes this volume a treat is the array of 21 distinguished researchers that have enlisted themselves to introduce-and put in perspective-each of these works. The list reads like a Who's Who in statistics, and includes: T. Cover, H. Chernoff, R. Kass, P. Vos, J. Rolph, P. McCullagh, J. Kalbfleisch, J. Berger, T. DiCiccio, D. Hinkley, J. Shao, C.F.J. Wu, P. Hall, T. Hastie, L. Wasserman, P. Bickel, R. Beran, N. Reid, J. Felsenstein, S. Stigler, R. Irezarry, D. Madigan, and M. Newton. The insights that these experts bring to these works are profound; ... Additional features of the volume include three to four pages of comments of former students of Efron's, 10 pages of photographs spanning 40 years, a full list of Efron's publications (up to 2008), and a reprint of Efron's AMSTAT News President's Corner article: 'But what do statisticians do?'. Because of Efron's recent 70th birthday, many people would call this volume a 'Festschrift'; I would say it is simply a treat for us all." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2010, Vol. 105, No. 490) "All interested in statistical research. ... How did the statistician Efron arise? What other research did Efron conduct? ... What does he think about statistics? If you are interested in partial answers to any of the above questions, this is a book for you. ... Every paper is preceded by a commentary by an expert on the subject ... and this doubles the value of the collection. ... a treasure trove of statistical gems, and deserves a place on the shelf of every research statistician." (Terry Speed, International Statistical Review, Vol. 78 (3), 2010)

• 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 many words 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.- 11. From 1982: The Jackknife, the Bootstrap and Other Resampling Plans [excerpt], Introduced by Peter Hall .- 12. From 1983: Estimating the error rate of a prediction rule: Improvement on cross-validation, Introduced by Trevor Hastie.- 13. From 1986: Why isn’t everyone a Bayesian?, Introduced by Larry Wasserman.- 14. From 1987: Better bootstrap confidence intervals,Introduced by Peter Bickel.- 15. From 1993: An Introduction to the Bootstrap (with Robert Tibshirani) [excerpt], Introduced by Rudy Beran.- 16. From 1996: Using specially designed exponential families for density estimation (with Robert Tibshirani), Introduced by Nancy Reid.- 17. From 1996: Bootstrap confidence levels for phylogenetic trees (correction) (with Elizabeth Halloran and Susan Holmes), Introduced byJoe Felsenstein.- 18. From 1998: R. A. Fisher in the 21st century, Introduced by Stephen Stigler.- 19. From 2001: Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment (with Robert Tibshirani, John D. Storey and Virginia Tusher), Introduced by Rafael Irizarry .- 20. From 2004: Least angle regression (with Trevor Hastie, Iain Johnstone and Robert Tibshirani), Introduced by David Madigan.- 21. From 2004: Large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing: The choice of a null hypothesis, Introduced by Michael Newton.- President’s Corner by Bradley Efron (AMSTAT News, April 2004): “But What Do Statisticians Do?”.