Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
Summary
The bootstrap genesis is generally attributed to Bradley Efron. In 1977 he wrote the famous Rietz Lecture on the estimation of sampling distributions based on observed data (Efron, 1979a). Since then, a number of outstanding and nowadays considered classical statistical texts have been written on the topic (Efron, 1982; Hall, 1992; Efron and Tibshirani, 1993; Shao and Tu, 1995), complemented by other interesting monographic exposés (LePage and Billard, 1992; Mammen, 1992; Davison and Hinkley, 1997; Manly, 1997; Barbe and Bertail, 1995; Chernick, 1999).
Efron and Tibshirani (1993) state in the Preface of their book Our goal in this book is to arm scientists andengineers, as well as statisticians, with computational techniques that they can use to analyze and understand complicated data sets. We share the view that Efron and Tibshirani (1993) have written an outstanding book which, unlike other texts on the bootstrap, is more accessible to an engineer. Many colleagues and graduate students of ours prefer to use this text as the major source of knowledge on the bootstrap. We believe, however, that the readership of (Efron and Tibshirani, 1993) is more likely to be researchers and (post-)graduate students in mathematical statistics than engineers.
To the best of our knowledge there are currently no books or monographs on the bootstrap written for electrical engineers, particularly for signal processing practitioners.
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- Bootstrap Techniques for Signal Processing , pp. ix - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004