An Introduction to the Bootstrap
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 1994
456 pages
978-1-000-06498-8 (ISBN)
Description
An Introduction to the Bootstrap arms scientists and engineers as well as statisticians with the computational techniques they need to analyze and understand complicated data sets. The bootstrap is a computer-based method of statistical inference that answers statistical questions without formulas and gives a direct appreciation of variance, bias, coverage, and other probabilistic phenomena. This book presents an overview of the bootstrap and related methods for assessing statistical accuracy, concentrating on the ideas rather than their mathematical justification. Not just for beginners, the presentation starts off slowly, but builds in both scope and depth to ideas that are quite sophisticated.
Reviews / Votes
"...an excellent book, and worth a reading by most students and practitioners in statistics... Throughout the book, the authors have spent a lot of effort in introducing difficult ideas in a simple, easy-to-understand manner..."- Hong Kong Statistical Society Newsletter
"... written in a style that makes difficult statistical concepts easy to understand ...a wonderful text for the engineer who would like to apply and understand the many different bootstrap techniques that have appeared in the literature in the last fifteen years. It makes an excellent reference text that should grace the shelves of both statisticians and non-statisticians."
- Journal of Quality Technology
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-000-06498-8 (9781000064988)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Bradley Efron, Department of Statistics Stanford University and Robert J. Tibshirani, Department of Preventative Medicine and Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, University of Toronto.
Content
Preface 1 Introduction 3 -Random samples and probabilities 4 The empirical distribution function and the plug-in principle 5 Standard errors and estimated standard errors 6 The bootstrap estimate of standard error 7 Bootstrap standard errors: some examples 8 More complicated data structures 9 Regression models 10 Estimates of bias 11 The jackknife 12 Confidence intervals based on bootstrap "tables" 13 Confidence intervals based on bootstrap percentiles 14 Better bootstrap confidence intervals 15 Permutation tests 16 Hypothesis testing with the bootstrap 17 Cross-validation and other estimates of prediction error 18 Adaptive estimation and calibration 19 Assessing the error in bootstrap estimates 20 A geometrical representation for the bootstrap and jackknife 21 An overview of nonparametric and parametric Inference 22 Further topics in bootstrap confidence intervals 23 Efficient bootstrap computations 24 Approximate likelihoods 25 Bootstrap bioequivalence 26 Discussion and further topics
