Jackknife Estimation — jackknife • arkhe

Jackknife Estimation

Usage

jackknife(object, ...)

# S4 method for numeric
jackknife(object, do, ...)

Arguments

object: A numeric vector.
...: Extra arguments passed to do.
do: A function that takes object as an argument and returns a single numeric value.

Value

Returns a named numeric vector with the following elements:

mean: The jackknife estimate of mean of do.
bias: The jackknife estimate of bias of do.
error: he jackknife estimate of standard error of do.

See also

Other resampling methods: confidence()

Author

N. Frerebeau

Examples

## Jackknife
x <- rnorm(20)
jackknife(x, do = mean) # Sample mean
#>      mean      bias     error 
#> 0.1733892 0.0000000 0.1673439