> I used bootstrap to virtually increase the size of my > dataset, it should result in estimates more close to that > from the population - isn't it the purpose of bootstrap?
No, not really. The bootstrap is a resampling method for variance estimation. It is often used when there is not an easy way, or a closed form expression, for estimating the sampling variance of a statistic. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
