Conditional bootstrap variance of a sample mean

ID: conditional-bootstrap-variance-of-a-sample-mean

Conditionally on the observed values, bootstrap draws are iid from their empirical distribution. Each draw has variance , so averaging independent draws gives the displayed variance. The variance across independent replicate means, using denominator , is unbiased for this conditional quantity. Its expectation over the original iid data is , which is slightly smaller than the actual sampling variance .

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