caa a22 4500 475826663 CHVBK 20180406123830.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1004173520112 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1004173520112 Reducing Bias Without Prejudicing Sign [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Hall, Brett Presnell, Berwin Turlach] Jackknife and bootstrap bias corrections are based on a differencing argument which does not necessarily respect the sign of the true parameter value. Depending on sampling variability they can over-correct, producing a final estimator that is negative when one knows on physical grounds that it should be positive. To overcome this problem we suggest a simple, alternative bootstrap approach, based on biased-bootstrap methods. Our technique has similar properties to the standard uniform-bootstrap method in cases where the latter does not endanger sign, but it respects sign in a canonical way when the standard method disregards it. The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2000 Bias reduction nationallicence biased bootstrap nationallicence bootstrap nationallicence jackknife nationallicence twicing nationallicence weighted bootstrap nationallicence Hall Peter Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut Presnell Brett Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut Turlach Berwin Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Kluwer Academic Publishers 52/3(2000-09-01), 507-518 0020-3157 52:3<507 2000 52 10463 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004173520112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004173520112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hall Peter Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Presnell Brett Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Turlach Berwin Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics Kluwer Academic Publishers 52/3(2000-09-01), 507-518 0020-3157 52:3<507 2000 52 10463 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer