Bootstrapping is a widely used statistical learning technique that falls under the broader category of resampling methods. Bootstrapping is typically used in the estimation of various statistics and ...

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 ...

For certain classes of data that may be very expensive or difficult to obtain, a new statistical technique may provide useful information from a single data run by allowing meaningful re-sampling. The ...