Bootstrap diagnostics and remedies

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-27

  Canty, Angelo J ^a   Davison, Anthony C ^b   Hinkley, David V ^c   Ventura, Valérie ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap recycling; Importance sampling; Inconsistency; Jackknife after bootstrap; Outlier; Pivot; Resampling; Spatial data; Stein estimator; Subsampling; Superefficiency; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744735348     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550340103     Document Type: Review

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