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The volume also includes a very useful index, professor efron s bibliography, and comments by former students. An introduction to the bootstrap 1st edition bradley. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Application of the bootstrap statistical method to the tau. The history of statistics as a recognized discipline divides rather neatly at 1900, the year of karl pearsons chisquare paper.
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