Chapter 19 Simulation

19.1 Simulation of discrete probability models

19.1.1 How many girls in 400 births?

19.1.2 Accounting for twins

19.2 Simulation of continuous and mixed discrete/continuous models

19.2.1 Simulation in R using custom-made functions

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

19.4 Bootstrapping to simulate a sampling distribution

19.4.1 Choices in defining the bootstrap distribution

19.4.1.1 Time series

19.4.1.2 Multilevel structure

19.4.1.3 Discrete data

19.4.2 Limitations of bootstrapping

19.5 Fake-data simulation as a way of life