An Example of Slow Convergence of the Bootstrap in High Dimensions

American Statistician

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-29

  Troendle, James F ^a   Korn, Edward L ^b   McShane, Lisa M ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothesis test; Microarray data; Multivariate data; Permutation test; Resampling; Small sample behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342310261     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130042845     Document Type: Article

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