Update on Bootstrapping

In a previous post, I mentioned that I wasn’t sure which paper of Brad Efron’s was the best for introducing stats majors to the bootstrap.  Dr Kannan, my department chair, set me straight.

• Efron and Tibshirani, "Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Other Measures of Statistical Accuracy," Statistical Science 1(1), 54-75 (1986).