Optimal block size of variance estimation by a spatial block bootstrap method

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 468-493

  Nordman, Daniel J ^a   Lahiri, Soumendra N ^a   Fridley, Brooke L ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Block bootstrap; Empirical block choice; Stationary random fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349096808     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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