Bradley Efron, Department of Statistics Stanford University and Robert J. Tibshirani, Department of Preventative Medicine and Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, University of Toronto.
""...an excellent book, and worth a reading by most students and practitioners in statistics... Throughout the book, the authors have spent a lot of effort in introducing difficult ideas in a simple, easy-to-understand manner..."" - Hong Kong Statistical Society Newsletter ""... written in a style that makes difficult statistical concepts easy to understand ...a wonderful text for the engineer who would like to apply and understand the many different bootstrap techniques that have appeared in the literature in the last fifteen years. It makes an excellent reference text that should grace the shelves of both statisticians and non-statisticians."" - Journal of Quality Technology