A 250-year argument: belief, behavior, and the bootstrap

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01374-5MaRDI QIDQ4918445zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Bradley Efron

Publication date 25 April 2013

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bootstrap, jackknife and other resampling methods (62F40) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65)

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