Bootstrap methods for standard errors, confidence intervals, and other measures of statistical accuracy

Statistical Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 54-75

  Efron, B ^a   Tibshirani, R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximate confidence intervals; Bootstrap method; Estimated standard errors; Nonparametric methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964203940     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1177013815     Document Type: Article

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