Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 3 28J c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For bootstrapping, repeatedly sample with replacement from the empirical distribution of the observations and compute . Conditional on the data, estimate the and quantiles of . The basic bootstrap interval isAs the number of resamples tends to infinity it estimates the conditional quantiles; bootstrap consistency and the continuous mapping theorem then give asymptotic coverage .