What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 371-386

  Hesterberg, Tim C ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Confidence intervals; Sampling distribution; Standard error; Statistical concepts; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952771596     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1089789     Document Type: Article

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