End Notes
1: You
will get this particular SAS output by choosing the PROC MEANS program
(e.g. see “Code06a Continuous descriptives”) and using
the keywords “N MEAN STD STDERR PROBT LCLM UCLM.”
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2: For instance, the bootstrap generally
cannot find confidence intervals for the maximum or minimum. Also,
if a sample is very small (say < 25 observations) bootstrapping
may not work for many techniques.
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3: This is not always true: sometimes you have all the data on the complete population (what we would call a census), for instance you may only be interested in studying your own employees and you have all required data on all your employees. In this case, there is not really a “broader population” in the short term. But, when your ...
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