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May 2003 Second Thoughts on the Bootstrap
Bradley Efron
Statist. Sci. 18(2): 135-140 (May 2003). DOI: 10.1214/ss/1063994968

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This brief review article is appearing in the issue of Statistical Science that marks the 25th anniversary of the bootstrap. It concerns some of the theoretical and methodological aspects of the bootstrap and how they might influence future work in statistics.

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Bradley Efron. "Second Thoughts on the Bootstrap." Statist. Sci. 18 (2) 135 - 140, May 2003. https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1063994968

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Published: May 2003
First available in Project Euclid: 19 September 2003

zbMATH: 1331.62180
MathSciNet: MR2026075
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ss/1063994968

Keywords: ABC method , BCA , bootstrap confidence intervals , objective Bayes , plug-in principle

Rights: Copyright © 2003 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.18 • No. 2 • May 2003
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