Diego Kuonen wrote:
>
> Jerry Dallal wrote:
> >
> > > I wouldn't call bootstrapping "sampling from a population."
> > > Would you?
> >
> > Actually, yes. The population defined by the original sample.
>
> More precisely: "sampling with replacement from the original sample"...
Well, yes, but since my original comment had a smiley attached, I wasn't
attempting to be rigorous here.
In any case, contrary to the poster's comment that prompted my first
response, in general it would not be bad statistics to sample with
replacement.
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