Using the bootstrap to quantify the authority of an empirical ranking

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 B, 2009, Pages 3929-3959

  Hall, Peter ^a   Miller, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Genomic data; High dimension; Independentcomponent bootstrap; M out of n bootstrap; Ordering; Overlap interval; Prediction interval; Synchronous bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949095371     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS699     Document Type: Article

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