Metadata
- Author: Allen Downey
- Full Title:: Small Percentiles and Missing Data
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Hypothesis testing,
- URL:: https://allendowney.substack.com/p/small-percentiles-and-missing-data
- Finished date:: 2024-04-29
Highlights
Immediately we can see that something has gone wrong. The resampling process produces only 8 unique values. (View Highlight)
This example demonstrates a limitation of bootstrap resampling — it does not work well when there are a small number of unique values. (View Highlight)
On a linear scale, it seemed like the normal model might be good enough; on a log scale, it is clear that the data deviate from the model in the left tail. (View Highlight)
kernel density estimation (KDE) to model the distribution of the data, then use the model to resample (View Highlight)