Abstract
The idea behind the bootstrap is an old one. If we wish to estimate a functional of a population distribution function F, such as a population mean
, consider employing the same functional of the sample (or empirical) distribution function F̂, which in this instance is the sample mean
.
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Hall, P. (1992). Principles of Bootstrap Methodology. In: The Bootstrap and Edgeworth Expansion. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4384-7_1
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