[R] problem with boot

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jun 19 16:00:31 CEST 2002


On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Juan Ramon Gonzalez wrote:

> Hello R-users,
>
> I'm using the boot's library. I have two questions:
>
> 1. I execute for example
>
>                     data<-rnorm(100)
>                     boot(data,mean,500)
>
> and I obtain 500 equal bootstrap samples of data. Why?

Because you haven't read the help page or studied the examples. See the
description of `statistic' in ?boot.

Please consult the Davison & Hinkley book for more details.

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