Confidence interval for the bootstrap P-value and sample size calculation of the bootstrap test

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 649-661

  Li, Jialiang ^a   Tai, Bee Choo ^a   Nott, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Binomial confidence interval; Bootstrap test; Nonparametric regression; P value; Sample size calculation; Simulation variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449365607     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: 10290311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250902770035     Document Type: Article

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