Intentionally biased bootstrap methods

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

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-158

  Hall, Peter ^a   Presnell, Brett ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Empirical likelihood; Hypothesis testing; Local linear smoothing; Nonparametric curve estimation; Variance stabilization; Weighted bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474287     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00168     Document Type: Article

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