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   1    <h3 class="heading1">Description:</h3>
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   3       The Bootstrap can be used to calculate bias, standard errors and
   4       confidence intervals. It does so by resampling with replacement
   5       from the data, see Efron B, An Introduction to the Bootstrap,
   6       Chap. & Hall, London UK, 1993. To compute standard errors for
   7       all parameters of a model using the non-parametric bootstrap
   8       implemented here, roughly 200 model fits are necessary. To assess
   9       95% confidence intervals approximatly 2000 runs will suffice.