nsamples = 100; nresamples = 1000; % draw a SRS (simple random sample, "Stichprobe") from the population: x = randn( 1, nsamples ); fprintf('%-30s %-5s %-5s %-5s\n', '', 'mean', 'stdev', 'sem' ) fprintf('%30s %5.2f %5.2f %5.2f\n', 'single SRS', mean( x ), std( x ), std( x )/sqrt(nsamples) ) % bootstrap the mean: mus = zeros(nresamples,1); % vector for storing the means for i = 1:nresamples % loop for generating the bootstraps inx = randi(nsamples, 1, nsamples); % range, 1D-vector, number xr = x(inx); % resample the original SRS mus(i) = mean(xr); % compute statistic of the resampled SRS end fprintf('%30s %5.2f %5.2f -\n', 'bootstrapped distribution', mean( mus ), std( mus ) ) % many SRS (we can do that with the random number generator, but not in real life!): musrs = zeros(nresamples,1); % vector for the means of each SRS for i = 1:nresamples x = randn( 1, nsamples ); % draw a new SRS musrs(i) = mean( x ); % compute its mean end fprintf('%30s %5.2f %5.2f -\n', 'sampling distribution', mean( musrs ), std( musrs ) )