Test inversion bootstrap confidence intervals

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 159-172

  Carpenter, James ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrap t; Edgeworth expansion; Lifespan study; Robbins Monro algorithm; Test inversion bootstrap; Variance stabilizing transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474285     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00169     Document Type: Article

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