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# Bradley Efron

(1938)   Bioinformatician

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Bradley Efron is a bioinformatician, best known for *Large-scale inference*.

## Quick Facts About Bradley Efron

Born May 24, 1938

Profession Bioinformatician

Notable works Large-scale inference

## About Bradley Efron

Bradley Efron is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988). He is a past editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and he is the founding editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics. Efron is also the recipient of many awards.

##  Quotes by Bradley Efron

> [Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-efron/those-who-ignore-statistics-are-condemned-to-reinvent-it/)

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> [New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-efron/new-methods-always-look-better-than-old-ones-neural-nets-are-better/)

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