History
The bootstrap was introduced in 1979 by Efron. It was inspired by earlier work on the jackknife. Improved estimates of the variance were developed later. A Bayesian extension was developed in 1981. The ABC procedure was developed in 1992 and the BCA procedure in 1996.
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