TY - GEN AU - Fadlallah Ghaly Hassan Mohamed Alfadaly AU - Sanaa Moustafa Elgayar , TI - On the accuracy of the bootstrab and the empirical edgeworth expansion in buliding confidence intervals : : Acomparative study / PY - 2007/// CY - Cairo : PB - Fadlallah Ghaly Hassan Mohamed Alfadaly , KW - Bootstrab confidence intervals KW - Bootstrab distribution KW - Edgeworth expansion N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Economics and Political Science - Department Of Statistics; Issued also as CD N2 - In the last two decades the bootstrap has become one of the most promising inferential resampling methodolgies that is widely applicable in different statistical areas.For many classes of statistics the bootstrap distribution has been proved to be at least as accurate as the approximation obtained from a first order asymptotic theory the matter that made it natural for the bootstrap distribution to provide one of the most useful approaches in constructing higher order accurate confidence intervals for population parameters ER -