Jackknife and bootstrap variance of a sample second moment

ID: jackknife-and-bootstrap-variance-of-a-sample-second-moment

For independent identically distributed observations with finite fourth moment, the sample mean of their squares has sampling variance . Its jackknife variance estimator is exactly the displayed unbiased estimator, since its leave-one-out values differ from their average by . The conditional bootstrap variance of a sample mean is . Thus the two methods have a known finite-sample scaling difference, despite sharing the same large-sample target.

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