Upper bounds on the true coverage of bootstrap percentile type confidence intervals

American Statistician

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 362-369

  Polansky, Alan M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Calibrated bootstrap; Finite sample; Iterated bootstrap; Resampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033480339     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1999.10474491     Document Type: Article

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