Document Type
Discussion Paper
Publication Date
11-1-1996
CFDP Number
1141R
CFDP Revision Date
1997-08-01
CFDP Pages
52
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of choosing the number of bootstrap repetitions B for bootstrap standard errors, confidence intervals, and tests. For each of these problems, the paper provides a three-step method for choosing B to achieve a desired level of accuracy. Accuracy is measured by the percentage deviation of the bootstrap standard error estimate, confidence interval endpoint(s), test’s critical value, or test’s p -value based on B bootstrap simulations from the corresponding ideal bootstrap quantities for which B = ∞. Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed methods work quite well. The results apply quite generally to parametric, semiparametric, and nonparametric models with independent and dependent data. The results apply to the standard nonparametric iid bootstrap, moving block bootstraps for time series data, parametric and semiparametric bootstraps, and bootstraps for regression models based on bootstrapping residuals
Recommended Citation
Andrews, Donald W.K. and Buchinsky, Moshe, "On the Number of Bootstrap Repetitions for Bootstrap Standard Errors, Confidence Internals, and Tests" (1996). Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers. 1389.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/1389