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Data & Analytics · Advanced

Bootstrapping

Estimating the sampling distribution of a statistic by repeatedly resampling the observed data with replacement.

Definition

Bootstrapping gives confidence intervals for medians, ratios and other statistics without distributional assumptions. In machine learning it underlies bagging.

Exam tip

Resampling with replacement = bootstrap.

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