Preprint #96-1



On the Jackknife-After-Bootstrap Method for Dependent Data and its Consistency Properties

by

S.N. Lahiri


Abstract

Motivated by Efron (1992), this paper proposes a version of the moving block jackknife as a method of estimating standard errors of block bootstrap estimators under dependence. As in the case of iid observations, the proposed method merely regroups the values of statistics from different bootstrap replicates to produce an estimate of its standard error. Consistency of the resulting standard error estimator is proved for block bootstrap estimators of different population parameters related to the unknown sampling distributions of a large class of statistics. Consistency of Efron (1992)'s method is also established in similar problems for iid data.


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