Bootstrap Methods: A Practitioners Guide; Author: Chernick, Michael R.; Author: Chernick; Hardback; Book

Author: Chernick, Michael R.; Author: Chernick
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; Hardback; Book
272 pages
Published: October 1999
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0471349127

Bootstrap methods have seen a surge of research activity in recent years, generating new theoretical developments, real-world applications, and critical reviews of its performance in solving various problems. This book introduces the bootstrap method at a remarkably practical, accessible level. Michael Chernick, highly recognized for his encyclopedic knowledge of the field, presents numerous recent results and applications, clearly explains when the bootstrap method is not effective or appropriate, and connects it with older and more traditional sampling methods.This introduction to the bootstrap for readers without a mathematical background updates classics by presenting results on improved confidence set estimation, estimation of error rates in discriminant analysis, and applications to a wide variety of hypothesis testing and estimation problems.