Inexact control variates for the iterated bootstrap

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-99

  Polansky, Alan M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap calibration; Confidence interval coverage; Monte Carlo swindle; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031293439     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811848     Document Type: Article

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