Brad Efron's Selected Papers and Software

2008

• Empirical Bayes estimates for large-scale prediction problems
• Supplementary material
  • Ebay and its auxiliary programs,
  • the prostate data microarray example used in "Empirical Bayes estimates",
  • and a Help file for all of the above.
• Row and column correlations: Are a set of microarrays independent of each other?

2007

• Simultaneous inference: When should hypothesis testing problems be combined?
• Doing thousands of hypothesis tests at the same time

2006

• Microarrays, empirical Bayes, and the two-groups model
• Testing the significance of sets of genes
• Size, power, and false discovery rates
• Correlation and large-scale simultaneous significance testing
  • Read the final version here;
  • an earlier version appears here.

2005

• Modern science and the Bayesian-frequentist controversy
• Minimum volume confidence regions for a multivariate normal mean vector
• Local false discovery rates
• Bayesians, frequentists, and scientists

2004

• Selection and estimation for large-scale simultaneous inference
• The estimation of prediction error: Covariance penalties and cross-validation
• Bayesians, frequentists, and physicists

2003

• Large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing: The choice of a null hypothesis
• Second thoughts on the bootstrap
• Robbins, empirical Bayes, and microarrays
• R package for local false discovery rates
  • Available on CRAN or here in source form only;
  • you can also find a vignette example here.

2002

• Least angle regression, with T. Hastie, I. Johnstone and R. Tibshirani
• LARS software for R and Splus

2001

• Scales of evidence for model selection: Fisher versus Jeffreys, with A. Gous
• The two-way proportional hazards model
• Microarrays empirical Bayes methods, and false discovery rates, with J. D. Storey and R. Tibshirani
• Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment, with R. Tibshirani, J. D. Storey and V. Tusher
  • Read the original version here;
  • the revised version is here.

Many earlier publications (up to 2001) are available at the ISI Web of Knowledge. Researchers are also recommended to JStor and Project Euclid.