Statistics

A Practical Guide to Bootstrap in R

What, Why, When, and How

Leihua Ye, PhD
Towards Data Science
6 min readSep 30, 2020

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Statistics A Practical Guide to Bootstrap in R What, Why, When, and How
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updated on August–11–2020

TL;DR

  • Bootstrap is a resampling method with replacement.
  • It allows us to estimate the distribution of the population even from a single sample.
  • In Machine Learning, bootstrap estimates the…

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