Approximately unbiased tests of regions using multistep-multiscale bootstrap resampling

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2616-2641

  Shimodaira, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approximately unbiased tests; Bias correction; Bootstrap probability; Curvature; Problem of regions; Third order accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644440363     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000823     Document Type: Article

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