The Jackknife: A cost-efficient alternative to bootstrap variance estimation

• Main Author: Obligacion, Glenn Michael P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2008
• Subjects: Estimation theory; Jackknife (Statistics); Bootstrap (Statistics); Resampling (Statistics); Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2308
• Institution: De La Salle University

This thesis presents the Jackknife Variance Estimator as a cost efficient alternative to the Bootstrap Variance Estimator. The Jackknife and the Bootstrap are both Resampling methodologies. This mean that they can provide a variance estimate to estimation problems, even when complexities in the samp...