Bootstrap: Software and Data for the Book 'An Introduction to the Bootstrap

Software and data accompany the 1993 book 'An Introduction to the Bootstrap' by B. Efron and R. Tibshirani. The package includes functions for bootstrap, cross-validation, and jackknife methods. It is an R port by Friedrich Leisch of an original S implementation from StatLib by Rob Tibshirani.

Use Cases

• Teaching and replicating examples from the book 'An Introduction to the Bootstrap' based on the included data and functions.
• Applying bootstrap, cross-validation, and jackknife resampling techniques to statistical problems.
• Maintaining or analyzing legacy R projects that depend on this specific bootstrap package.

Strengths

• Directly supports a foundational 1993 textbook on bootstrap methods.
• Provides implementations of core resampling techniques: bootstrap, cross-validation, and jackknife.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description states new projects should preferentially use the recommended 'boot' package, suggesting this is legacy software.

Provenance

Source

Original S code from StatLib by Rob Tibshirani, R port by Friedrich Leisch.

Collection Method

Created to support the book 'An Introduction to the Bootstrap'.