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What is the bootstrap?
Author(s) -
Cochran James J.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01225.x
Subject(s) - statistics , econometrics , operations research , computer science , mathematics
Bradley Efron was awarded the 2018 International Prize in Statistics for the creation of the “bootstrap”, a method described as “the best statistical pain reliever ever produced”. But what is it, and how does it work? James J. Cochran explains