Bootstrap confidence intervals: when, which, what? A practical guide for medical statisticians
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- 25 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Statistics in Medicine
- Vol. 19 (9) , 1141-1164
- https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(20000515)19:9<1141::aid-sim479>3.0.co;2-f
Abstract
Since the early 1980s, a bewildering array of methods for constructing bootstrap confidence intervals have been proposed. In this article, we address the following questions. First, when should bootstrap confidence intervals be used. Secondly, which method should be chosen, and thirdly, how should it be implemented. In order to do this, we review the common algorithms for resampling and methods for constructing bootstrap confidence intervals, together with some less well known ones, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. We then present a simulation study, a flow chart for choosing an appropriate method and a survival analysis example. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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