Davison, Anthony C.; Hinkley, David V. Saddlepoint approximations in resampling methods. (English) Zbl 0651.62018 Biometrika 75, No. 3, 417-431 (1988). Summary: Saddlepoint approximations are shown to be easy to use and accurate in a variety of simple bootstrap and randomization applications. Examples include mean estimation, ratio estimation, two-sample comparisons, and autoregressive estimation. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 45 Documents MSC: 62E20 Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics 62G05 Nonparametric estimation 62G10 Nonparametric hypothesis testing Keywords:conditional inference; correlation; partial likelihood; significance tests; density approximations; cumulative distributions of sums of random variables; resampling-generated likelihoods; Saddlepoint approximations; bootstrap; randomization; mean estimation; ratio estimation; two-sample comparisons; autoregressive estimation PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{A. C. Davison} and \textit{D. V. Hinkley}, Biometrika 75, No. 3, 417--431 (1988; Zbl 0651.62018) Full Text: DOI