SciencesPo (version 1.02.12)

jackknife: Resamples Data Using the Jackknife Method

Description

This function is used for estimating standard errors when the distribution is not know.

Usage

jackknife(x, p)

Arguments

x

a vector

p

estimation of parameter

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

Examples

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