--- moleps islon <[email protected]> wrote:
> You state that jackknife is inappropriate. Principles of medical
> statistics, feinstein 2002 claim the contrary-I have no clue what is
> right..
I learned that from Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R. (1993). An
Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman & Hall/CRC. The logic is that
the statistic needs to be a smooth function of the data in order for
the jackknife to work, and the median obviously is not a smooth
function of the data.
-- Maarten
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