A Real Example That Illustrates Interesting Properties of Bootstrap Bias Correction

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-65

  Jeske, Daniel R ^a   Sampath, Ashwin ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Bootstrap methodology; Mean squared error; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037329536     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130031135     Document Type: Article

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