Importance sampling for bootstrap confidence intervals

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 83, Issue 403, 1988, Pages 709-714

  Johns, M Vernon ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

M estimators; Quantile estimation; Resampling methods; Robust estimation of location; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001060375     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1988.10478651     Document Type: Article

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