doctoral_advisor thesis_year thesis_title awards image_size nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students article_title name alma_mater
rupert miller herbert solomon 1964 problems in probability of a geometric nature national medal of science -lrb- 2005 -rrb- 180px american statistics stanford university 24 may 1938 bootstrap method norman breslow robert tibshirani bradley efron
 bradley efron california institute of technology , stanford university
bradley efron

bradley efron -lrb- born may 24 , 1938 -rrb- is an american statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique , which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application .
the bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques , replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations .
