1 Monte Carlo Methods in Inference 1.1 Monte Carlo Methods for Estimation 1.1.1 Monte Carlo Estimation and Standard Error 1.1.2 Estimation of MSE 1.2 Estimating a confidence level 1.3 Monte Carlo Methods for Hypothesis Tests 1.4 Empirical Type I error rate 1.4.1 Power of a Test 1.4.2 Power Comparisons 1.5 Application: “Count Five” Test for Equal Variance
1 Bootstrap and Jackknife 1.1 The Bootstrap 1.1.1 Bootstrap Estimation of Standard Error 1.1.2 Bootstrap Estimation of Bias 1.2 Jackknife 1.3 Jackknife-after-Bootstrap 1.4 Bootstrap Confidence Intervals 1.4.1 The Standard Normal Bootstrap Confidence Interval 1.4.2 The Percentile Bootstrap Confidence Interval 1.4.3 The Basic Bootstrap Confidence Interval 1.4.4 The Bootstrap t interval 1.5 Better Bootstrap Confidence Intervals 1.6 Application: Cross Validation
1 EM optimization method 1.1 EM algorithm 1.2 Convergence 1.3 Usage in exponential families 1.4 Usage in finite normal mixtures 1.5 Variance estimation 1.5.1 Louis method 1.5.2 SEM algorithm 1.5.3 Bootstrap method 1.5.4 Empirical Information 1.6 EM Variants 1.6.1 Improving the E step 1.6.2 Improving the M step 1.7 Pros and Cons