Re: [R] memory and bootstrapping

2011-05-05 Thread Tim Hesterberg
(Regarding bootstrapping logistic regression.) If the number of rows with Y=1 is small, it doesn't matter that n is huge. If both number of successes and failures is huge, then ad Ripley notes you can use asymptotic CIs. The mean difference in predicted probabilities is a nonlinear function of t

Re: [R] memory and bootstrapping

2011-05-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The only reason the boot package will take more memory for 2000 replications than 10 is that it needs to store the results. That is not to say that on a 32-bit OS the fragmentation will not get worse, but that is unlikely to be a significant factor. As for the methodology: 'boot' is support s