%0 Journal Article %1 efron1979computers %A Efron, Bradley %D 1979 %I Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) %J SIAM Review %K review statistics theory %N 4 %P 460--480 %R 10.1137/1021092 %T Computers and the Theory of Statistics: Thinking the Unthinkable %U https://doi.org/10.1137/1021092 %V 21 %X This is a survey article concerning recent advances in certain areas of statistical theory, written for a mathematical audience with no background in statistics. The topics are chosen to illustrate a special point: how the advent of the high-speed computer has affected the development of statistical theory. The topics discussed include nonparametric methods, the jackknife, the bootstrap, cross-validation, error-rate estimation in discriminant analysis, robust estimation, the influence function, censored data, the EM algorithm, and Cox’s likelihood function. The exposition is mainly by example, with only a little offered in the way of theoretical development. Read More: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1021092

@article{efron1979computers, abstract = {This is a survey article concerning recent advances in certain areas of statistical theory, written for a mathematical audience with no background in statistics. The topics are chosen to illustrate a special point: how the advent of the high-speed computer has affected the development of statistical theory. The topics discussed include nonparametric methods, the jackknife, the bootstrap, cross-validation, error-rate estimation in discriminant analysis, robust estimation, the influence function, censored data, the EM algorithm, and Cox’s likelihood function. The exposition is mainly by example, with only a little offered in the way of theoretical development. Read More: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1021092 }, added-at = {2021-07-26T13:04:48.000+0200}, author = {Efron, Bradley}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/231c9728b813e378e31e36066afa33d51/pbett}, description = {Computers and the Theory of Statistics: Thinking the Unthinkable | SIAM Review | Vol. 21, No. 4 | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}, doi = {10.1137/1021092}, interhash = {0769c339922f9a2b71bcd5dff7850332}, intrahash = {31c9728b813e378e31e36066afa33d51}, journal = {SIAM Review}, keywords = {review statistics theory}, month = oct, number = 4, pages = {460--480}, publisher = {Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)}, timestamp = {2021-07-26T13:04:48.000+0200}, title = {Computers and the Theory of Statistics: Thinking the Unthinkable}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1137/1021092}, volume = 21, year = 1979 }