Introduction bootstrapping pdf

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Computational tools, in R and SAS, are developed and illustrated via examples. Exercises designed to reinforce examples are included. Important techniques covered include Rank-based techniques, including sign, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman, Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests, are presented. Tests are inverted to produce estimates and confidence intervals. Multivariate tests are explored. Techniques reflecting the dependence of a response variable on explanatory variables are presented.

Density estimation is explored. The bootstrap and jackknife are discussed. This text is intended for a graduate student in applied statistics. The course is best taken after an introductory course in statistical methodology, a course in elementary probability, and a course in regression. Mathematical prerequisites include calculus through multivariate differentiation and integration, and, ideally, a course in matrix algebra.

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An Introduction to Statistical Computing introduces the classical topics of random number generation and Monte Carlo methods. It also includes some advanced methods such as the reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm and modern methods such as approximate Bayesian computation and multilevel Monte Carlo techniques An Introduction to Statistical Computing: Fully covers the traditional topics of statistical computing.

Discusses both practical aspects and the theoretical background. Includes a chapter about continuous-time models.

Illustrates all methods using examples and exercises. Provides answers to the exercises using the statistical computing environment R ; the corresponding source code is available online. Includes an introduction to programming in R. Bootstrapping is a nonparametric method which lets us compute estimated standard errors, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.

Note: Due to differences in the seed, your results will be different from the results shown below! A major component of bootstrapping is being able to resample a given data set and in R the function which does this is the sample function.

The first argument is a vector containing the data set to be resampled or the indices of the data to be resampled. The size option specifies the sample size with the default being the size of the population being resampled.

The replace option determines if the sample will be drawn with or without replacement where the default value is FALSE, i. The prob option takes a vector of length equal to the data set given in the first argument containing the probability of selection for each element of x. The default value is for a random sample where each element has equal probability of being sampled.

In a typical bootstrapping situation we would want to obtain bootstrapping samples of the same size as the population being sampled and we would want to sample with replacement. In the following bootstrapping example we would like to obtain a standard error for the estimate of the median.

We will be using the lapply , sapply functions in combination with the sample function. For more information about the lapply and sapply function please look at the advanced function R library pages or consult the help manuals.

We can put all these steps into a single function where all we would need to specify is which data set to use and how many times we want to resample in order to obtain the adjusted standard error of the median.

For more information on how to construct functions please consult the R library pages on introduction to functions and advanced functions.