Two procedures are proposed for estimating the rejection probabilities of bootstrap tests in Monte Carlo experiments without actually computing a bootstrap test for each replication. These procedures are only about twice as expensive (per replication) as estimating rejection probabilities for asymptotic tests. Then a new procedure is proposed for computing bootstrap P values that will often be ...

This vignette illustrates the application of variance estimation procedures to indicators on social exclusion and poverty using the R package laeken. To be more precise, it describes a general framework for estimating variance and confidence intervals of indicators under complex sampling designs. Currently, the package is focused on bootstrap approaches. While the naive bootstrap does not modif...

This paper establishes the higher-order equivalence of the k-step bootstrap, introduced recently by Davidson and MacKinnon (1999), and the standard bootstrap. The k-step bootstrap is a very attractive alternative computationally to the standard bootstrap for statistics based on nonlinear extremum estimators, such as generalized method of moment and maximum likelihood estimators. The paper also ...

We introduce a new, factor based bootstrap approach which is robust under heteroskedastic error terms for inference in functional coefficient models. Modeling the functional coefficient parametrically, the bootstrap approximation of a test statistic used for inference on parameter invariance is shown to hold asymptotically. In simulation studies, the factor based bootstrap inference outperforms...

1 This paper establishes the higher-order equivalence of the k-step bootstrap, introduced recently by Davidson and MacKinnon (1999), and the standard bootstrap. The k-step bootstrap is a very attractive alternative computationally to the standard bootstrap for statistics based on nonlinear extremum estimators, such as generalized method of moment and maximum likelihood estimators. The paper als...

Piezoelectric transformers (PT) are an alternative to wire wound magnetic transformers because of numerous advantages i.e. being the electromechanical energy conversion, low EMI, a compact and low design, as well as a high potential of high efficiency and power density. The last two decades of research into piezoelectric transformer (PT) based power converters have led to some extensive improve...

We construct bootstrap conndence intervals for smoothing spline and smoothing spline ANOVA estimates based on Gaussian data, and penalized likelihood smoothing spline estimates based on data from exponential families. Several variations of bootstrap conndence intervals are considered and compared. We nd that the commonly used bootstrap percentile intervals are inferior to the T intervals and to...

This paper studies robustness of bootstrap inference methods under moment conditions. In particular, we compare the uniform weight and implied probability bootstraps by analyzing behaviors of the bootstrap quantiles when an outlier takes an arbitrarily large value, and derive the breakdown points for those bootstrap quantiles. The breakdown properties characterize the situation where the implie...

floorplanning is an important step in physical design of vlsi circuits. it is used to plan the positions of a set of circuit modules on a chip in order to optimize the circuit performance. however, modern floorplanning takes better care of providing extra options to place dedicated modules in the hierarchical designs to align circuit blocks one by one within certain bounding box for helping seq...

Bootstrap resampling is starting to be frequently applied to contingency tables analysis of Genome-Wide SNP data, to cope with the bias in genetic effect estimates, the large number of false positive associations and the instability of the lists of SNPs associated with a disease. The bootstrap procedure, however, increases the computational complexity by a factor B, where B is the number of boo...