Fundamental concepts of the bootstrap for statistical analysis of mechanical systems

ConclusionsThe fundamental ideas upon which the bootstrap is based were developed in this paper. The bootstrap is an experimental statistical technique, capable of performing statistical analyses on data that are non-Gaussian and on measures of the data that are not Gaussian or Gaussian-related. A simple numerical example was used to demonstrate some elementary bootstrap operations, and an example that used experimentally obtained data demonstrated some elementary, yet practical, statistical analyses.