The smoothed median and the bootstrap

Biometrika

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 519-534

  Brown, B M ^a   Hall, Peter ^b   Young, G A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Calibrated percentile method; Median; Percentile t; Rank methods; Smoothed median

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011377671     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/88.2.519     Document Type: Article

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