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Bootstrap Confidence Intervals in R


I am a new R user, and am having trouble using the boot package. All I want to do is use bootstrapping to produce confidence intervals around a mean for a vector of numbers, such as:

x <- rnorm(100, 1, .5)

Any tips?


Solution

  • Doesn't the following suffice?

    library(boot)
    x <- rnorm(100, 1, .5)
    b <- boot(x, function(u,i) mean(u[i]), R = 999)
    boot.ci(b, type = c("norm", "basic", "perc"))