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Efron's "bootstrap" method of distribution approximation is shown to be asymptotically valid in a large number of situations, including t-statistics, the empirical and quantile processes, and von Mises functionals. Some counter-examples are also given, to show that the approximation does not always succeed.
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Bickel et al. (1981) studied this question.
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