Chapter 14 - Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests - WH Freeman
Chapter 14 - Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests - WH Freeman
Chapter 14 - Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests - WH Freeman
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<strong>14</strong>-4 CHAPTER <strong>14</strong> <strong>Bootstrap</strong> <strong>Methods</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Permutation</strong> <strong>Tests</strong><br />
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FIGURE <strong>14</strong>.1 (a) The distribution of 1664 repair times for Verizon customers.<br />
(b) Normal quantile plot of the repair times. The distribution is<br />
strongly right-skewed.