《自助法及其應用》內容簡介： Wedecidedtotrytowriteabalanced account ofresamplingmethods,toincludebasic aspects of the theory which underpinned the methods，and to show as manyapplications as we could in order to illustrate the fun potential of the methods-warts and alL We quickly realized that in order for uS and others to understandand use the bootstrap，we would need suitable software，and producing it led usfurther towards a practically oriented treatment.0ur view was cemented by twofurther developments：the appearance oftwo excellent books，one bv PIeter Hallon the asymptotic theory and the other on basic methods bv Bradley Efron andRobert Tibshirani；and the chance to give further courses that included practicals.Our experience has been that hands-on computing is essential in coming to gripswith resampling ideas,so we have included practicals in this booL as well as moretheoretical problems.