R help - Feb 2007 - sort of OT: bootstrap tutorial

There is now a tutorial on bootstrapping and other resampling
methods at:

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/bootstrap_resampling.html

Corrections and other suggestions are welcome.

The project started because a novice asked me about bootstrapping.
My response was, "How dare you bug me while I'm playing with my
cats, just google for it."  My correspondent was not very impressed
with my advice.  Once I actually followed my strategy, I saw how
awful it was.


Patrick Burns
patrick at burns-stat.com
+44 (0)20 8525 0696
http://www.burns-stat.com
(home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")

Thank you Patrick. That looks very useful.
--- Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com> wrote:
> There is now a tutorial on bootstrapping and other
> resampling
> methods at:
> 
>
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/bootstrap_resampling.html
> 
> Corrections and other suggestions are welcome.
> 
> The project started because a novice asked me about
> bootstrapping.
> My response was, "How dare you bug me while I'm
> playing with my
> cats, just google for it."  My correspondent was not
> very impressed
> with my advice.  Once I actually followed my
> strategy, I saw how
> awful it was.
> 
> 
> Patrick Burns
> patrick at burns-stat.com
> +44 (0)20 8525 0696
> http://www.burns-stat.com
> (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S
> User")
> 
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Another introductory document is
	"Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests"
	http://bcs.whfreeman.com/ips5e/content/cat_080/pdf/moore14.pdf
This focuses on the methods, not on particular software.

There is an accompanying library at
	http://www.insightful.com/Hesterberg/bootstrap/IPSdata.zip
that includes the datasets.  While this is for S+, R users could
adapt the data/readdata.ssc file to load the datasets.

The document is written for introductory statistics students, but
should be interesting to those who are more advanced.  For more info see
http://www.insightful.com/Hesterberg/bootstrap/default.asp#Reference.introStat

Patrick Burns wrote:
>There is now a tutorial on bootstrapping and other resampling
>methods at:
>
>http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/bootstrap_resampling.html
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