Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Prediction

by Bradley Efron

Book Overview

We live in a new age for statistical inference, where modern scientific technology such as microarrays and fMRI machines routinely produce thousands and sometimes millions of parallel data sets, each with its own estimation or testing problem. Doing thousands of problems at once is more than repeated application of classical methods. Taking an empirical Bayes approach, Bradley Efron, inventor of the bootstrap, shows how information accrues across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110761967X
• ISBN13: 9781107619678
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"