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A. Narayanan writes--

I have a student who is in need of a "canned" program (preferably
FORTRAN) for computing bootstrap confidence intervals....

Reply--

I can't help with a canned program.  I suggest that writing the program
would be a good lesson for the student.  If the student is prepared to
evaluate small-sample properties of statistics (as stated), then
programming a bootstrap in FORTRAN shouldn't be too hard a task.

A.N., I hope this doesn't sound too unsympathetic to a student's plight
(I was one myself once), but I would hate to unleash a statistician on
the world who couldn't do such an exercise.   He might start by reading
the fairly simple paper by Efron and Tibshirani (1986) in Statistical
Science.

...Mike
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