Bootstrap confidence intervals

G. J. Babu and Arup Bose

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1988, vol. 7, issue 2, 151-160

Abstract: Nonparametric confidence bounds are obtained for a wide class of statistics using bootstrap. These results improve the errors in the probability estimates of the confidence intervals over the ones obtained by the normal approximation theory unconditionally.

Keywords: normal; approximation; nonparametric; confidence; intervals; Cramers; condition; Edgeworth; expansion; bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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