Science without (parametric) models: The case of bootstrap resampling

Synthese

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-76

  Sprenger, Jan ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bootstrap resampling; Data; Inductive inference; Models; Nonparametric statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953243404     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9567-z     Document Type: Article

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