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A confidence interval when there's no formula

You want a 95% confidence interval for a statistic with no tidy closed-form standard error, say the median holding-period return, or a strategy's Sharpe ratio.

Describe how the bootstrap builds a confidence interval, walk through the percentile method, and note where the bootstrap can mislead.

Your answer

This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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