What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum

Abstract

-intervals for small samples, though more accurate for larger samples. My goals in this article are to provide a deeper understanding of bootstrap methods-how they work, when they work or not, and which methods work better-and to highlight pedagogical issues. Supplementary materials for this article are available online. [Received December 2014. Revised August 2015].