To present a resampling approach to obtain confidence intervals (CIs) and the empirical distributions for the studentized regression residuals percentiles when used as cutoff points for overweight and ...

Bootstrapping is a widely used statistical learning technique that falls under the broader category of resampling methods. Bootstrapping is typically used in the estimation of various statistics and ...

An approach combining saddlepoint approximation and importance resampling is developed for approximating the bootstrap distribution of a statistic which is a smooth function of sample means. The idea ...

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