Bootstrap confidence intervals: When, which, what? A practical guide for medical statisticians

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1141-1164

  Carpenter, James ^a   Bithell, John ^b  

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

^b Department of Statistics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 0034657861     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000515)19:9<1141::AID-SIM479>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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