Re: [NTLK] bootstrapping success

From: James Elliott (james.elliott_at_newted.org)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 17:21:52 EDT


You say it's impossible, but what if the soles of the boots are
attached to the ceiling?

-James

>Bootstrapping was defined for me the first time in a multivariate statistics
>course. The term derived from the layman's statement "pulling/lifting
>oneself up by the bootstraps", which (stated earlier) is physically
>impossible. However, in mathematics, the term refers to a method used to
>construct a statistical model from a small set of numbers or data, which if
>used alone would not prove adequate.

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