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

For example, the common combination of nonparametric bootstrapping and bootstrap percentile confidence intervals is less accurate than using t -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]