Revisiting qualms about bootstrap confidence intervals

American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 437-456

  Chernick, Michael R ^a   Labudde, Robert A ^b  

^a LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Least Cost Formulations Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC; BC; BCa; Bootstrap confidence intervals; Efron's percentile method; Iterated bootstrap; Second order bootstrap

Indexed keywords

ABC; BC; BCA; BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EFRON' PERCENTILE METHOD; ITERATED BOOTSTRAP; SECOND ORDER BOOTSTRAP;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

SAMPLING;

EID: 79955437671     PISSN: 01966324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01966324.2009.10737767     Document Type: Article

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