Importance Sampling for Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
用于 Bootstrap 置信区间的重要性抽样
The use of importance-sampling methods to substantially reduce the amount of resampling necessary for the construction of nonparametric bootstrap confidence intervals is investigated. The classical importance-sampling method of Hammersley and Handscomb (1964) is modified to apply to the estimation of quantiles. Based on this method, a resampling procedure is introduced that recenters the bootstrap distribution of a robust estimator of location to produce estimated confidence…