Don’t Forget the Conditions for the Bootstrap!

David Diez, OpenIntro The percentile bootstrap approach has made inroads to introductory statistics courses, sometimes with the incorrect declaration that it can be used without checking any conditions. Unfortunately, the percentile bootstrap performs worse than methods based on the t-distribution for small samples of numerical data. I would wager that the large majority of statisticians … Continue reading Don’t Forget the Conditions for the Bootstrap!