--- On Fri, 27/3/09, Carlos Garcia wrote:
> how to decide systematically on the bootstrap sample size
> and the number of replications?
The bootstrap sample size should be the same as your
sample size. The number of replication depends on whether
you want an estimate of the standard error or an estimate
of the confidence interval, typically the confidence
interval require many more replications. A good and
accesable discussion of this can be found in: Efron,
Bradley and Rob J. Tibshirani (1993) An introduction to
the bootstrap. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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