Chapter 22 Simulation

22.1 Simulation of discrete probability models

22.1.1 How many girls in 400 births?

22.1.2 Accounting for twins

22.2 Simulation of continuous and mixed discrete/continuous models

22.2.1 Simulation in R using custom-made functions

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

22.4 Bootstrapping to simulate a sampling distribution

22.4.1 Choices in defining the bootstrap distribution

22.4.1.1 Time series

22.4.1.2 Multilevel structure

22.4.1.3 Discrete data

22.4.2 Limitations of bootstrapping

22.5 Fake-data simulation as a way of life