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What is bootstrap prediction?
Bootstrapping is any test or metric that uses random sampling with replacement (e.g. mimicking the sampling process), and falls under the broader class of resampling methods. Bootstrapping assigns measures of accuracy (bias, variance, confidence intervals, prediction error, etc.) to sample estimates.
Is confidence or prediction interval bigger?
Prediction intervals must account for both the uncertainty in estimating the population mean, plus the random variation of the individual values. So a prediction interval is always wider than a confidence interval. Also, the prediction interval will not converge to a single value as the sample size increases.
Is there any bootstrap technique available to compute prediction intervals?
Is there any bootstrap technique available to compute prediction intervals for point predictions obtained e.g. from linear regression or other regression method (k-nearest neighbour, regression trees etc.)?
How is the 95% bootstrap interval cross validated?
Simply add sample (resid (fit.b), size = 1) to the prediction line in STEP 3, this will add the necessary variability to the prediction to account for uncertainty in the irreducible error: This 95% bootstrap interval matches the 95% prediction interval, and this can be generalized quite easily to other more general models.
Why do we use prediction intervals in regression?
Since the data differ from the true regression values by , and since our regression does not attempt to predict those (plus we don’t know exactly) we have even more uncertainty in using our model for the prediction of the new data. Prediction intervals quantify the uncertainty in a prediction of the data that the model did not see during training.
How to make a 90% prediction interval for y n + 1?
And, finally, the algorithm for making a 90% prediction interval for Y N + 1, given that X is X N + 1 is: Make the prediction Y N + 1 p = X N + 1 β ^ OLS. Make the variance-adjusted residuals, { s 1 − s ¯, s 2 − s ¯, …, s N − s ¯ }, where s i = e i / ( 1 − h i). 90% prediction interval for Y N + 1 is [ Y N + 1 p + e 5, Y N + 1 p + e 95].