Bootstrap hypothesis testing for some common statistical problems: A critical evaluation of size and power properties

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6321-6342

  Martin, Michael A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bootstrap confidence interval; Correlation coefficient; Null and alternative hypothesis; Power of test; Resampling; Size of test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NULL AND ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; RESAMPLING;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 34547159345     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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