An Edgeworth expansion for the m out of
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Anat Sakov; Peter J. Bickel
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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It is well known that the ordinary bootstrap distribution of the median is consistent. We show that for bootstrap samples of size m, an Edgeworth expansion holds with reminder term Op(1=m + m -1=4 log m= โ n). With extrapolation this gives a best possible rate estimate of the distribution.