Statistical Theory and the Computer

摘要: Everyone here knows that the modern computer has profoundly changed statistical practice. The effect upon theory is less obvious. Typical data analyses still rely, in main, ideas developed fifty years ago. Inevitably though, new technical capabilities inspire ideas. Efron, 1979B, describes a variety of current theoretical topics which depend existence cheap and fast computation: jackknife, bootstrap, cross-validation, robust estimation, EM algorithm, Cox’s likelihood function for censored data.