Second-order and bootstrap approximation to student's t-statistic

Theory of Probability and its Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 300-307

  Bloznelis, M ^a   Putter, H ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Bootstrap; Edgeworth expansion; Self normalized sum; Student test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038472171     PISSN: 0040585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0040585X97979743     Document Type: Article

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