R Programming/Bootstrap


 * boot package includes functions from the book Bootstrap Methods and Their Applications by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley (1997, CUP)
 * bootstrap package.

Quick how-to
Do a bootstrap of some data for some function (here, mean): b <- boot(data, function(data, id) { mean(data[id]) }, 1000) Use this to compute a 90%-confidence interval: boot.ci(b, .9, type="norm")