ASA LEADERS REMINISCE: BRAD EFRON

摘要

In the ninth installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 2004 president Bradley Efron. Bradley Efron is Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences, professor of statistics at Stanford University, and professor of biostatistics with the department of health research and policy in the school of medicine. He completed his undergraduate work in mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1960, and he earned his doctorate in statistics from Stanford in 1964, joining the Stanford faculty that same year. Brad was promoted to full professor there in 1972. He was associate dean for the school of humanities and sciences from 1987-1990, served three terms as chair of the department of statistics, and, since 1980 has served as co-director of Stanford's Mathematical and Computational Sciences Program. Brad has held visiting faculty appointments at Harvard University; Imperial College, London and the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected president of both the American Statistical Association (2004) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987-1988). He is a past theory and methods editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and was the founding editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics from 2006-2012.