[R] bcanon bug???

[Lutz Prechelt]

> in some cases the bootstrap estimates for the
> highest confidence level are obviously wrong:
> 0.05/x    -1.33318711781158
> 0.025    -1.09386961626344
> 0.05    -0.868768454819694
> 0.1    -0.652649120212949
> 0.16    0.0453058935697044
> 0.84    0.104645679223495
> 0.9    0.213385388775905
> 0.95    0.368838243723381
> 0.975    0.615868703042345
> 1-0.05/x    -1.33318711781158
> where the estimate for the highest confidence level is simply 
> the copy of that for the lowest.

Which is not quite so obviously wrong:
it is perfectly right if x = 0.1

You did not tell us the value of x.

This would mean an entry

0.5   -1.333

which does not quite fit into the rest of your series,
but maybe what you are bootstrapping is not quite as 
continuous as it seems?

  Lutz