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Bootstrapping : a nonparametric approach to statistical inference
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- Creator
- Christopher Z. Mooney, Robert D. Duval
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Newbury Park, Calif. ; London : Sage Publications, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- vi, 72 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780803953819, 080395381X
- OCLC
- ocm28374765
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 1. Introduction -- Traditional parametric statistical inference -- Bootstrap statistical inference -- Bootstrapping a regression model -- Theoretical justification -- The jackknife -- Monte Carlo evaluation of the bootstrap -- 2. Statistical inference using the bootstrap -- Bias estimation -- Bootstrap confidence intervals -- 3. Applications of bootstrap confidence intervals -- Confidence intervals for statistics with unknown sampling distributions -- The sample mean from a small sample -- The difference between two sample medians -- Inference when traditional distributional assumptions are violated -- OLS regression with a nonnormal error structure -- 4. Conclusion -- Future work -- Limitation of the bootstrap -- Concluding remarks