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8.9 Case Study3: Simple Percentile-Based Bootstrap
The bootstrap (see, e.g., Efron and Tibshirani 1994) is one of the most important tools to
be added to the data analyst’s toolkit in recent memory. The key idea in a bootstrap is that
if the sample distribution is a reasonable approximation of the population distribution,
then you canapproximate the sampling distribution of a statistic by sampling from the
sample distribution. For each resample, you calculate the test statistic of interest.The
distribut ...
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