The International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to Bradley Efron, professor of statistics and biomedical data science at Stanford University, in recognition of the "bootstrap," a method he ...

You can feel the tension every time you open your inbox. One tab has a half-finished pitch deck, a graveyard of bullet points ...

Nonparamtric bootstrapping methods may be useful for assessing confidence in a supertree inference. We examined the performance of two supertree bootstrapping methods on four published data sets that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper considers the block selection problem for a block bootstrap variance estimator applied to spatial data on a regular grid. We ...

To present a resampling approach to obtain confidence intervals (CIs) and the empirical distributions for the studentized regression residuals percentiles when used as cutoff points for overweight and ...

There’s a raging debate going in the tech startup world: should you bootstrap a company or raise money from investors? The reality of the situation doesn’t lend itself well to absolutes. Most ...

What if there is no one else around to consult with before making a judgment - how can we be confident that we are giving a good answer? A new study suggests that "dialectical bootstrapping" (that is, ...