Frontier Science Always Ends Up Being Unreliable Science

question 36

True/False

Frontier science always ends up being unreliable science.

Understand the concept of bootstrapping as a resampling technique to estimate the distribution of a statistic from a sample.

Compute and interpret the bootstrap estimate of bias and standard error for sample statistics.

Construct and interpret bootstrap confidence intervals for population parameters based on sample statistics.

Recognize the plug-in principle in statistical estimation and its application in bootstrapping.

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