ON THE NUMBER OF BOOTSTRAP REPETITIONS FOR BC a CONFIDENCE INTERVALS
BCa 置信区间的自助法重复次数选择
This paper considers the problem of choosing the number of bootstrap repetitions B to use with the BC a bootstrap confidence intervals introduced by Efron (1987, Journal of the American Statistical Association 82, 171–200). Because the simulated random variables are ancillary, we seek a choice of B that yields a confidence interval that is close to the ideal bootstrap confidence interval for which B = ∞. We specify a three-step method of choosing B that ensures that the…