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Bias

:

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If we take the statistic tex2html_wrap_inline1250 , (where tex2html_wrap_inline1244 denotes the empirical distribution function) and apply the bootstrap algorithm to its expectation then we obtain the estimate :

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where the dot indicates averaging : tex2html_wrap_inline1256


Prof. Susan Holmes
Tue Mar 24 14:40:11 EST 1998