Distribution estimators and confidence intervals for stereological volumes
体视学体积估计的分布估计量与置信区间
Assessing the precision of volume estimates from systematic samples is a question of great practical importance, but statistically a challenging task due to the strong spatial dependence of the data and typically small sample sizes. The approach taken in this paper is more ambitious than earlier methodologies, the goal of which was estimation of the variance of a volume estimator v̂, rather than estimation of the distribution of v̂. We shall show that bootstrap methods yield…