[R] How can I obtain the values of BIAS and STD. ERROR from a bootstrap.

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jul 10 15:31:42 CEST 2006


Look at the code of boot:::print.boot , which does the calculations.

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, John Sorkin wrote:

> R 2.3.1
> Windows XP
>
> Question: How can I obtain the values of BIAS and STD. ERROR from a
> bootstrap.
>
> Background:
> I am running a bootstrap:
> result2<-boot(1:400,regSEvssample,R=5000)
>
> and obtain the following results:
>
> Bootstrap Statistics :
>    original        bias    std. error
> t1* 1.876602 -0.0001368616   0.1630380
>
> I would like to get the values of ORIGINAL and BIAS. I can get the
> value of ORIGINAL:
>
>> result2$t0
> [1] 1.876602
>
> But I can't find a way to get the values of BIAS or  STD. ERROR. Can
> someone suggest how I can obtain the values for these two statistics?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
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