I was working on a permutation-like variant of the bootstrap for smaller
samples, and wanted to be able to get summary stats of my estimator
conveniently. mean() is OK as its a generic, so a mean.oddboot function gets
used automatically. But var, sd and others are not originally written as
generic; they have to be explicitly masked by a package or new declaration.
It would have been nice if stats::var was a generic to make it more easily
extensible... one for the wish list?
Steve Ellison
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