The Percentile Bootstrap: A Primer With Step-by-Step Instructions in R

Author:

Rousselet Guillaume A.1ORCID,Pernet Cyril R.2,Wilcox Rand R.3

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow

2. Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Neuroimaging Sciences, University of Edinburgh

3. Department of Psychology, University of Southern California

Abstract

The percentile bootstrap is the Swiss Army knife of statistics: It is a nonparametric method based on data-driven simulations. It can be applied to many statistical problems, as a substitute to standard parametric approaches, or in situations for which parametric methods do not exist. In this Tutorial, we cover R code to implement the percentile bootstrap to make inferences about central tendency (e.g., means and trimmed means) and spread in a one-sample example and in an example comparing two independent groups. For each example, we explain how to derive a bootstrap distribution and how to get a confidence interval and a p value from that distribution. We also demonstrate how to run a simulation to assess the behavior of the bootstrap. For some purposes, such as making inferences about the mean, the bootstrap performs poorly. But for other purposes, it is the only known method that works well over a broad range of situations. More broadly, combining the percentile bootstrap with robust estimators (i.e., estimators that are not overly sensitive to outliers) can help users gain a deeper understanding of their data than they would using conventional methods.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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