B. Efron

32.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
31 papers, 23.1k citations indexed

About

B. Efron is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Efron has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 23.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Statistics and Probability, 3 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in B. Efron's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (8 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (6 papers) and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (3 papers). B. Efron is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (8 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (6 papers) and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (3 papers). B. Efron collaborates with scholars based in United States and Niger. B. Efron's co-authors include Ryan J. Tibshirani, S. T. Buckland, C. Stein, Paul Marriott, Robert Tibshirani, Elizabeth Halloran, Susan Holmes, Daniel Feldman, Kenneth P. Burnham and Carl N. Morris and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

B. Efron

31 papers receiving 21.4k citations

Hit Papers

Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 1986 1994 1981 1995 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife
    1979 11.8k citations B. Efron The Annals of Statistics profile →
  2. Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Other Measures of Statistical Accuracy
    1986 4.8k citations B. Efron et al. Statistical Science profile →
  3. An Introduction to the Bootstrap.
    1994 2.6k citations B. Efron et al. Biometrics profile →
  4. The Jackknife Estimate of Variance
    1981 880 citations B. Efron, C. Stein The Annals of Statistics profile →
  5. An Introduction to the Bootstrap.
    1995 631 citations B. Efron et al. profile →
  6. Bootstrap confidence levels for phylogenetic trees.
    1996 565 citations B. Efron et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B. Efron United States 20 4.9k 2.7k 2.2k 1.8k 1.7k 31 23.1k
D. R. Cox United Kingdom 46 7.1k 1.5× 2.9k 1.1× 2.4k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 759 0.4× 127 23.7k
Ingram Olkin United States 69 6.7k 1.4× 2.5k 0.9× 2.6k 1.2× 1.2k 0.6× 832 0.5× 274 42.1k
William S. Cleveland United States 46 2.8k 0.6× 3.5k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 3.0k 1.7× 141 28.0k
Alan Agresti United States 61 6.9k 1.4× 2.8k 1.1× 2.1k 1.0× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 164 28.3k
Peter McCullagh Australia 32 7.0k 1.4× 2.7k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.2× 156 25.3k
Frederick Mosteller United States 69 4.7k 1.0× 2.9k 1.1× 2.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 815 0.5× 254 28.2k
Robert E. Kass United States 50 5.4k 1.1× 4.3k 1.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 158 23.8k
Bernard W. Silverman United Kingdom 45 4.5k 0.9× 2.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 854 0.5× 104 15.6k
R. Dennis Cook United States 58 9.3k 1.9× 2.7k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 738 0.4× 237 20.2k
D. V. Hinkley United States 36 5.2k 1.1× 1.7k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 653 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 100 13.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. Efron

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rezvani, Alireza, Abraham S. Kanate, B. Efron, et al.. (2015). Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation after failed autologous transplant for lymphoma using TLI and anti-thymocyte globulin conditioning. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 50(10). 1286–1292. 6 indexed citations
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Lemley, Kevin V., Richard Lafayette, G. C. Derby, et al.. (2007). Prediction of early progression in recently diagnosed IgA nephropathy. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 23(1). 213–222. 20 indexed citations
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Lawrence, Jody, Jonathan Schapiro, Mark A. Winters, et al.. (1999). Clinical Resistance Patterns and Responses to Two Sequential Protease Inhibitor Regimens in Saquinavir and Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor–Experienced Persons. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 179(6). 1356–1364. 51 indexed citations
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Schapiro, Jonathan, Jody Lawrence, Roberto F. Speck, et al.. (1999). Resistance Mutations to Zidovudine and Saquinavir in Patients Receiving Zidovudine plus Saquinavir or Zidovudine and Zalcitabine plus Saquinavir in AIDS Clinical Trials Group 229. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 179(1). 249–253. 9 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1997). The length heuristic for simultaneous hypothesis tests. Biometrika. 84(1). 143–157. 33 indexed citations
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Efron, B. & Daniel Feldman. (1991). Compliance as an Explanatory Variable in Clinical Trials. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 86(413). 9–17. 216 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1990). [The Unity and Diversity of Probability]: Comment. Statistical Science. 5(4). 1 indexed citations
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Leibenhaut, Mark H., R T Hoppe, B. Efron, et al.. (1989). Prognostic indicators of laparotomy findings in clinical stage I-II supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin's disease.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 7(1). 81–91. 87 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1988). Discussion: Theoretical Comparison of Bootstrap Confidence Intervals. The Annals of Statistics. 16(3). 1 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1987). Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals Based on Bootstrap Samples: Comment. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 82(399). 754–754. 6 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1986). Why Isn't Everyone a Bayesian?. The American Statistician. 40(1). 1–1. 68 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1986). [Why Isn't Everyone a Bayesian?]: Reply. The American Statistician. 40(1). 11–11. 24 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1986). Reply. The American Statistician. 40(1). 11–11. 1 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1986). Discussion: Jackknife, Bootstrap and Other Resampling Methods in Regression Analysis. The Annals of Statistics. 14(4). 25 indexed citations
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Burnham, Kenneth P. & B. Efron. (1983). The Jackknife, the Bootstrap and Other Resampling Plans.. Biometrics. 39(3). 816–816. 190 indexed citations
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Efron, B. & C. Stein. (1981). The Jackknife Estimate of Variance. The Annals of Statistics. 9(3). 880 indexed citations breakdown →
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Efron, B.. (1979). Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife. The Annals of Statistics. 7(1). 11792 indexed citations breakdown →
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Efron, B., et al.. (1979). Surgical correction of congenital hypoplastic metatarsals. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association. 69(4). 241–244. 14 indexed citations
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Efron, B. & Carl N. Morris. (1973). Combining Possibly Related Estimation Problems. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 35(3). 379–402. 125 indexed citations
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Efron, B.. (1965). The convex hull of a random set of points. Biometrika. 52(3-4). 331–343. 188 indexed citations

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