I am trying to compute bootstrap confidence intervals for a sample
using R 2.5.1 for Windows.
I can get "Normal", "Basic", "Percentile",
"BCa" and "ABC" from
boot.ci() and boot() in the Davison & Hinkley "boot" package.
But I can't figure out how to use tilt.boot() to get the "tilting"
confidence interval. Here's a program snippet:
g = rgamma(N,shape=2,scale=3) #Generate a sample of N random deviates
varf = function (x,i) { var(x[i]) }
b = boot(g, varf, R=1000)
boot.ci(b)
fabc = function (x, w) { sum(x^2*w)/sum(w)-(sum(x*w)/sum(w))^2 } #wgt
average (biased) variance
abc.ci(g, fabc) #ABC method confidence interval
bt = tilt.boot(g, varf, R=c(1000,1000,1000))
The bt object doesn't have a confidence interval method or property,
even though alpha=c(.025, .975) is a default parameter in the tilt.boot() call.
This must be simple, but I'm not finding out the answer from the
documentation.
Also, use of any other packages to accomplish the tilting interval
would also be useful.
Thanks.
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