[clircle]

Does any living statistician come close to the level of Donald Rubin in terms of research impact? Missing data analysis, causal inference, EM algorithm, any probably more. He just walks around creating new subfields.

[selimthegrim]

Efron?

[richrichie]

& Tibshirani

[selimthegrim]

Stein too

[j7ake]

Mike Jordan, Tibshirani, Emmanuel Candes

[selectionbias]

Also approximate Bayesian computation, principal stratification, and the Bayesian Bootstrap.

[aquafox]

Andrew Gelman?

[nabla9]

Gelman has contributed to Bayesianism, hierarchial models and Stan is great, but that's not even close to what Rubin has done.

ps. Gelman was Rubin's doctoral student.