Stabilizing bootstrap-t confidence intervals for small samples

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 501-516

  Polansky, Alan M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correctness; Coverage error; Kernel density estimate; Resampling; Smoothed bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034357441     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315961     Document Type: Article

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