Chapter 20 Simulation

20.1 Simulation of discrete probability models

20.1.1 How many girls in 400 births?

20.1.2 Accounting for twins

20.2 Simulation of continuous and mixed discrete/continuous models

20.2.1 Simulation in R using custom-made functions

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

20.4 Bootstrapping to simulate a sampling distribution

20.4.1 Choices in defining the bootstrap distribution

20.4.1.1 Time series

20.4.1.2 Multilevel structure

20.4.1.3 Discrete data

20.4.2 Limitations of bootstrapping

20.5 Fake-data simulation as a way of life