Sequential Iterated Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Methodological

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 235-251

  Lee, Stephen M S ^a   Young, G Alastair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bootstrap; coverage accuracy; iterated bootstrap; percentile method; resampling; sequential probability ratio test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002210075     PISSN: 00359246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2517-6161.1996.tb02078.x     Document Type: Article

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