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Some Non-Asymptotic Properties Of Parametric Bootstrap P-Values, Chris Lloyd
Some Non-Asymptotic Properties Of Parametric Bootstrap P-Values, Chris Lloyd
Chris J. Lloyd
The bootstrap P-value is the exact tail probability of a test statistic, cal-culated assuming the nuisance parameter equals the null maximum likelihood (ML) estimate. For discrete data, bootstrap P-values perform amazingly well even for small samples, even as standard first order methods perform surprisingly poorly. Why is this? Detailed numerical calculations in Lloyd (2012a) strongly suggest that the good performance of bootstrap is not explained by asymptotics. In this paper, I establish several desirable non-asymptotic properties of bootstrap P-values. The most important of these is that bootstrap will correct ‘bad’ ordering of the sample space which leads to a more …