Chapter 14 Simulation

14.1 Simulation of discrete probability models

14.1.1 How many girls in 400 births?

14.1.2 Accounting for twins

14.2 Simulation of continuous and mixed discrete/continuous models

14.2.1 Simulation in R using custom-made functions

14.3 Summarizing a set of simulations using median and median absolute deviation

14.4 Bootstrapping to simulate a sampling distribution

14.4.1 Choices in defining the bootstrap distribution

14.4.1.1 Time series

14.4.1.2 Multilevel structure

14.4.1.3 Discrete data

14.4.2 Limitations of bootstrapping

14.5 Fake-data simulation as a way of life