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much simpler, is equivalent to the original BB, in view of the construction of

the Dirichlet distribution from independent exponential variables. The BB

metho d is easy to implement as long as fitting the model with weighted data

is technically easy. This includes GLM models, line ar mixed models, GLMM

fitted with GEE approaches, and nonlinear models with nonsparse data.

There is an obvious link between BB and the standard bootstrap (SB),

which is equivalent to using integer (including 0) weights to fit the model in

the same way as BB. Therefore, BB can also be considered as a smoothed

version of SB. One technical advantage of BB is that it is also more stable

than SB, a s it ensures each pair having ...