statistics-bootstrap-v5.1.0

!!! IMPORTANT NOTICE: This version has a significant bug introduced in 5.1.0 that affects bootstrap resampling, particularly for Windows users. Please use version 5.1.5 or above instead. !!!

Some of the changes include:

Bug fixes:

• Enabled handling of multiple data arguments with varying number of columns (e.g. for case resampling in linear regression) using bootknife, bootci and bootstrp
• Fixed minor bug in make file
• Made boot and smoothmedian accept empty optional input arguments and set them to default values
• bootci, bootstrp and bootknife now omit and gracefully accommodate for instances of NaN in the bootstrap statistics returned by bootfun

Feature changes:

• Swapped 4th and 5th input arguments to boot
• Added more BISTs and demos to functions (which can be used in Octave)
• Added more interval types to bootci function
• Added ability to construct 1-sided or (symmetric) 2-sided double bootstrap confidence intervals
• Added expansion of probabilities to intervals constructed by bootcoeff and bootemm
• Switched to using kernel density estimation with shrinkage correction for obtaining quantiles from the bootstrap statistics (Gaussian kernel)
• Added double bootstrap calculation of standard error
• Added option in make file to choose between compiling source code or using precompiled binaries
• Added new function cor in param folder: vectorized function for more rapid computation of Pearsons correlation coefficient from pairs of matrices

Other changes:

• Some formatting changes to code or printed function output.
• Some changes to organisation of coded
• Updated help documentation and comments in code
• Minor performance enhancement to double bootstrap (by avoiding error checking in the nested level of resampling)