On the assessment of Monte Carlo error in simulation-based Statistical analyses

American Statistician

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-162

  Koehler, Elizabeth ^a   Brown, Elizabeth ^b   Haneuse, Sebastien J P A ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Jackknife; Replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449131551     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.0030     Document Type: Article

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