jackknife: Resamples Data Using The Jackknife Method

In danielmarcelino/SciencesPo: A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Description

This function is mainly used to estimate statistics (standard errors), when the distribution is not know.

Usage

Jackknife(x, FUN = mean, ...)

## Default S3 method:
Jackknife(x, FUN = mean, ...)

Arguments

x	A vector
FUN	a function name to estimate, i.e., 'mean', 'sd', 'var', 'cov', etc.
...	further arguments passed to or used by other methods.

Value

est orignial estimation of parameter

jkest jackknife estimation of parameter

jkvar jackknife estimation of variance

jkbias jackknife estimate of biasness of parameter

jkbiascorr bias corrected parameter estimate

Author(s)

Daniel Marcelino, [e-mail]

Examples

x = runif(10, 0, 1)
mean(x)
Jackknife(x, mean)

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