### Bootstrap: p ### ### Consider a poll related the the Presidential Election of 790 voters. The results ### give 411 to Bush and 379 to Gore. Thus 0.52 favor Bush and 0.48 favor Gore. ### Get a 95% CI for the proportion of voters who favor Bush using the traditional ### CLT formula, p.hat +/- z * sqrt(p.hat*(1-p.hat)/n), where z = 1.96. ### Using Minitab, Stat > Basic Statistics > 1 Proportion > Summarized data > Number ### of trials: 790 > Number of successes: 411 ### Use the Bootstrap to plot the Bootstrap distibution of p.hat and give a 95% Boostrap ### Empirical Confidence Interval for p. # create a data vector n <- 790 b <- 411 g <- n - b x <- numeric(n) x[1:b] <- 1 mean(x) boot.b <- bootstrap(x,mean) summary(boot.b) limits.emp(boot.b) plot(boot.b)