A Short Prehistory of the Bootstrap

Statistical Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 158-167

  Hall, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Block bootstrap; Computer intensive statistics; Confidence interval; Half sample; Monte Carlo; Moving block; Permutation test; Resample; Resampling; Sample survey; Statistical experimentation; Subsample

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346271743     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1063994970     Document Type: Review

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