Books and Other Work

Books

2026

• To Think Like a Statistician, Princeton University Press.

2022

• Exponential Families in Theory and Practice, IMS Textbooks, Cambridge University Press.
• EFTP Datasets

2016

• Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science, with T. Hastie. IMS Monographs, Cambridge University Press.

2010

• Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Prediction, IMS Monographs, Cambridge University Press.
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  • LSI Datasets and Programs

2008

• The Science of Bradley Efron: Selected Papers, edited by C. Morris and R. Tibshirani. Springer, NY.

2003

• The Statistical Century. In Stochastic Musings: Perspectives from the Pioneers of the Late 20th Century, edited by John Panaretos. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ.

1993

• An Introduction to the Bootstrap (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability), with R. Tibshirani. Chapman and Hall, NY.

1992

• Six Questions Raised by the Bootstrap. In Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap, edited by R. LePage and L. Billard. John Wiley and Sons, NY.

1982

• The Jackknife, the Bootstrap, and Other Resampling Plans. SIAM, Philadelphia, PA.

1980

• Biostatistics Casebook, with R.G. Miller, Jr., B. Wm. Brown, Jr. and L. Moses. John Wiley and Sons, NY.
  (out of print)

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Essays and Editorials

2010s

• 2017  Statistical thinking for 21st century scientists with D.R. Cox, Science Advances 3, e1700768.
• 2013  Perspective: Bayes' Theorem in the 21st Century, Science 340, 1177-1178.
• 2013  Thirteen Rules
• 2011  Note: A Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Year Argument, written for the 30th Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop, University of Leeds, UK.

2000s

• 2009  Encyclopedia of Statistics essay: The Future of Statistics.
• 2008  Editorial: False discovery rates and the James-Stein estimator. Statistica Sinica 18, 805-816.
• 2004  "President's Corner" column, AmStat News.
• 2000  The bootstrap and modern statistics. JASA 95, 1293-1296.

Nineties

• 1998  R.A. Fisher in the 21st century. Statist. Sci. 13, 95-122.
• 1995  Computer-intensive statistical methods (with R. Tibshirani). In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Wiley-Interscience, NY.
• 1991  Statistical data analysis in the computer age (with R. Tibshirani). Science 253, 390-395.

Eighties

• 1987  Did Shakespeare write a newly discovered poem? (with R. Thisted). Biometrika 74, 445-455.
• 1986  Why isn't everyone a Bayesian? American Statistician 40, 1-11.
• 1983  A leisurely look at the bootstrap, the jackknife, and cross-validation (with G. Gong). American Statistician 37, 36-48.

Seventies

• 1978  Controversies in the foundations of statistics. Amer. Math. Mon. 85, 231-246.
• 1977  Stein's paradox in statistics (with C. Morris). Scientific American 236, 119-127.
• 1976  Estimating the number of unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know? (with R. Thisted). Biometrika 63, 435-447.