Statistical Science

Introduction to the Bootstrap World

Dennis D. Boos
Source: Statist. Sci. Volume 18, Issue 2 (2003), 168-174.

Abstract

The bootstrap has made a fundamental impact on how we carry out statistical inference in problems without analytic solutions. This fact is illustrated with examples and comments that emphasize the parametric bootstrap and hypothesis testing.

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