In this week’s episode, Greg and I discuss the amazing world of the empirical bootstrap. We start with inferential testing using business as usual, we describe where that quickly runs into problems, and we explore where bootstrapping does and, importantly, does not help move us forward. Along the way we also discuss midnight in Bangkok, the awe of a 747, the Wright Brothers, what’s your point, sampling a crappy sample, indulging neurons, Guinness beer, just go faster, what does Tukey know, kids these days, sticking to the story, the symmetric horse, Greenday and Coors Light, everything is awesome, petulant teenagers, and maybe a little too quiet.
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Suggested Readings
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Bollen, K. A., & Stine, R. A. (1992). Bootstrapping goodness-of-fit measures in structural equation models. Sociological Methods & Research, 21(2), 205-229.
DiCiccio, T. J., & Efron, B. (1996). Bootstrap confidence intervals. Statistical Science, 11(3), 189-228.
Efron, B. (1992). Bootstrap methods: another look at the jackknife. In Breakthroughs in Statistics: Methodology and Distribution (pp. 569-593). New York, NY: Springer New York.
Efron, B. (2000). The bootstrap and modern statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95(452), 1293-1296.
Efron, B., & Tibshirani, R. J. (1994). An introduction to the bootstrap. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Hancock, G. R., & Liu, M. (2012). Bootstrapping standard errors and data-model fit statistics in structural equation modeling. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Handbook of structural equation modeling (pp. 296–306). The Guilford Press.
Horowitz, J. L. (2019). Bootstrap methods in econometrics. Annual Review of Economics, 11(1), 193-224.
Stine, R. (1989). An introduction to bootstrap methods: Examples and ideas. Sociological Methods & Research, 18(2-3), 243-291.