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Definition of Bootstraps
1. bootstrap [v] - See also: bootstrap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootstraps
Literary usage of Bootstraps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. State of the Art in Probability and Statistics: Festschrift for Willem R by Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, A. W. van der Vaart (2001)
"The first limit theory for exchange- ably weighted bootstraps was established by
Mason and Newton (1992); they treated exchangeable bootstrapping of the ..."
2. Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate by Arthur James Todd (1918)
"In other words we are confronted with the problem of whether man can lift himself
by his own bootstraps. To avoid any possible ambiguity we now propose to ..."
3. A Novel Proposition: Revolutionizing the Distribution of Wealth, Farm by David Lubin (1893)
"It is not a lifting of oneself up by the bootstraps at all. It is a distribution
of wealth calculated to give that strength and stability to our country as ..."
4. Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality by Albert Fishlow, Karen Parker (1999)
"See their “By Our Own bootstraps: Economic Opportunity and the Dynamics of Income
... See Peter Gottschalk, Notes on “By Their Own bootstraps,” mimeo., ..."
5. The Duality of His Life: Human Nature Versus Nurture: An Illustration of the ...by James Spade by James Spade (2006)
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' So I worked hard. Real hard. And rose to
a position of power and influence. Spent most of my time right here, in fact. ..."
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