Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap

ISBN-13: 9780471536314 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 448 str.

Raoul Lepage; Lynne Billard; Raoul Lepage

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Explores the application of bootstrap to problems that place unusual demands on the method. The bootstrap method, introduced by Bradley Efron in 1973, is a nonparametric technique for inferring the distribution of a statistic derived from a sample.

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Partial table of contents:

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE BOOTSTRAP.

On the Bootstrap of M–Estimators and Other Statistical Functionals (M. Arcones & E. Gine).

Bootstrapping Markov Chains (K. Athreya & C. Fuh).

Six Questions Raised by the Bootstrap (B. Efron).

Efficient Bootstrap Simulation (P. Hall).

Bootstrapping Signs (R. LePage).

Bootstrap Bandwidth Selection (J. Marron).

APPLICATIONS OF THE BOOTSTRAP.

A Generalized Bootstrap (E. Bedrick & J. Hill).

Bootstrapping Admissible Linear Model Selection Procedures (D. Brownstone).

A Hazard Process for Survival Analysis (J. Hsieh).

A Nonparametric Density Estimation Based Resampling Algorithm (M. Taylor & J. Thompson).

Nonparametric Rank Estimation Using Bootstrap Resampling and Canonical Correlation Analysis (X. Tu, et al.).

Index.