On Thursday 24 October 2002 23:21, James Elliott wrote:
> You say it's impossible, but what if the soles of the boots are
> attached to the ceiling?
I guess that in that case fiddling with the straps would be an invitation
for 'Interesting Times' ahead.
> >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.
-- Jazz."Revenge is a rolling pin!" (the Widow's Revenge team from Robot Wars)
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