This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is well-know that for heavy-tailed distributions the bootstrap can lead to inconsistent estimation of the distribution of the sample mean; ...

Many have suggested a bootstrap procedure for estimating the sampling variability of principal component analysis (PCA) results. However, when the number of measurements per subject (p) is much larger ...

Estimating the likelihood of catastrophic events, and particularly terrorist attacks, is extremely important. But in general, these catastrophes are outliers in whatever situation we are looking at.