This assignment has students investigate whether the risk of having a child with a low birth weight is higher when the mother drinks and smokes during pregnancy. The data set represents a random sample of 1450 births from the state of North Carolina.
This page discusses the theory behind the bootstrap. It discusses the empirical distribution function as an approximation of the distribution function. It also introduces the parametric bootstrap.
This online, interactive lesson on Markov chains provides examples, exercises, and applets that cover recurrence, transience, periodicity, time reversal, as well as invariant and limiting distributions.
