Science without (parametric) models: the case of bootstrap resampling

Science without (parametric) models: the case of bootstrap resampling

Scientific and statistical inferences build heavily on explicit, parametric models, and often with good reasons. However, the limited scope of parametric models and the increasing complexity of the studied systems in modern science raise the risk of model misspecification. Therefore, I examine alternative, data-based inference techniques, such as bootstrap resampling. I argue that their neglect...

the application of multivariate probit models for conditional claim-types (the case study of iranian car insurance industry)

هدف اصلی نرخ گذاری بیمه ای تعیین نرخ عادلانه و منطقی از دیدگاه بیمه گر و بیمه گذار است. تعین نرخ یکی از مهم ترین مسایلی است که شرکتهای بیمه با آن روبرو هستند، زیرا تعیین نرخ اصلی ترین عامل در رقابت بین شرکتها است. برای تعیین حق بیمه ابتدا می باید مقدار مورد انتظار ادعای خسارت برای هر قرارداد بیمه را برآورد کرد. روش عمومی مدل سازی خسارتهای عملیاتی در نظر گرفتن تواتر و شدت خسارتها می باشد. اگر شر...

Efficient Bootstrap Resampling

Bootstrap principle is briefly reviewed. Hall’s (1989) antithetic variates method for bootstrap is discussed and extended to more than two antithetic resampling processes. We illustrate the theory with a simulation study. The numerical results show that increasing the number of antithetic resampling processes produces significant smaller variances of the bootstrap estimator over the paired case.

- multiscale bootstrap resampling

Statistics Notes: Bootstrap resampling methods.

the bmj | BMJ 2015;350:h2622 | doi: 10.1136/bmj.h2622 1Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK; Correspondence to: J M Bland [email protected] Cite this as: BMJ 2015;350:h2622 doi: 10.1136/bmj.h2622 Statis...