[R] Coefficients of Logistic Regression from bootstrap - how to get them?

Doran, Harold HDoran at air.org
Mon Jul 21 21:41:53 CEST 2008


> I used bootstrap to virtually increase the size of my 
> dataset, it should result in estimates more close to that 
> from the population - isn't it the purpose of bootstrap?

No, not really. The bootstrap is a resampling method for variance
estimation. It is often used when there is not an easy way, or a closed
form expression, for estimating the sampling variance of a statistic.



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