Efron: bootstrap methods and the jackknife

What changed

Introduced resampling from empirical data to estimate a statistic's sampling distribution and linked jackknife approximation.

Scientific scope

The record is Efron's sole-author 1979 Annals of Statistics paper. Its demonstrations and satisfactory-performance statements concern the examples and estimands analyzed there; bootstrap validity still depends on sampling structure and regularity conditions.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Efron's sole-author 1979 Annals of Statistics paper. Its demonstrations and satisfactory-performance statements concern the examples and estimands analyzed there; bootstrap validity still depends on sampling structure and regularity conditions.

Contributors

• Bradley Efron · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Project Euclid record for bootstrap paper
• JSTOR record for bootstrap paper

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