Saddlepoint Approximation for the Studentized Mean, with an Application to the Bootstrap
学生化均值的鞍点近似及其 Bootstrap 应用
A saddlepoint technique is used to approximate to the density and tail probability of the studentized mean of a random sample. The motivation was to replace bootstrapping of the studentized mean in the way Davison & Hinkley (1988) used the saddlepoint approximation for the unstudentized mean. The method involves first obtaining a bivariate saddlepoint approximation, then, after a nonlinear transformation, integrating out an unwanted variable either numerically or by a…