Inconsistency of the Bootstrap when a Parameter is on the Boundary of the Parameter Space

DOI10.1111/1468-0262.00114zbMath1015.62044OpenAlexW2069549793MaRDI QIDQ4530969

Publication date: 28 May 2002

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.00114

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Bootstrap, jackknife and other resampling methods (62F40) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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