This kind of problem comes up a lot in high energy physics, and there have been several workshops discussing various methodologies for handling, though alas not bootstrap methods. However, at a planning meeting for last September's PHYSTAT 2003 conference, Brad Efron pointed out that for *confidence regions* in this case his ABC method applies straightforwardly. I suggest you consider contacting him, as he has recently been in touch with the particle physics folks on this type of problem and is likely to have already thought about it.
I personally would rather just see the confidence region than the test result. -Tom -- To respond by email, replace "somewhere" with "astro" in the return address. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
