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What Revisions Does Bootstrap Testing Need?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
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Clark Glymour (1980) defined bootstrap-confirmation as a three-place relation: “Evidence E bootstrap confirms hypothesis H with respect to theory T.“ By an ingenious choice of examples, David Christensen (1983) has shown that Glymour's definition is satisfied in a class of cases in which confirmation seems to be highly counterintuitive. Responding to Christensen's criticism, Glymour (1983) revised his 1980 definition of bootstrap confirmation, by introducing an additional condition that rules out Christensen's counterexamples.
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I am very grateful to Clark Glymour, Herbert Simon, and to an anonymous referee for many valuable suggestions that helped me in making a considerable number of improvements to this paper.
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