TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimation of the radius of a circle when the coordinates of a number of points on its circumference are observed : an example of bootstrapping
AU - Linssen, H.N.
AU - Banens, P.J.A.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - The bootstrap (Efron, 1979, 1982) is a very simple resampling plan and has shown to be successful in estimating the bias and other measures of statistical error of a number of estimators. It gives freedom from the constraints of traditional parametric theory at the cost of performing the usual statistical calculations a hundred or a thousand times over. In this letter another example of bootstrap estimation of bias is given. It is interesting that Quenouille's (1949) jackknife (see Miller, 1964, for a review) fails completely in this case.
AB - The bootstrap (Efron, 1979, 1982) is a very simple resampling plan and has shown to be successful in estimating the bias and other measures of statistical error of a number of estimators. It gives freedom from the constraints of traditional parametric theory at the cost of performing the usual statistical calculations a hundred or a thousand times over. In this letter another example of bootstrap estimation of bias is given. It is interesting that Quenouille's (1949) jackknife (see Miller, 1964, for a review) fails completely in this case.
U2 - 10.1016/0167-7152(83)90050-0
DO - 10.1016/0167-7152(83)90050-0
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 307
EP - 311
JO - Statistics and Probability Letters
JF - Statistics and Probability Letters
SN - 0167-7152
IS - 6
ER -