bootstrapper
nounEtymology From bootstrap + -er.
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Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.
- They were part of a pioneer discussion group in Queens in the late ’40s, intentionally half black, half white — earnest bootstrappers, civil servants, teachers, who discussed novels, the Bible, politics.2009 January 18, George Vecsey, “A Journey From Ebbets Field to the Steps of the Capitol”, in New York Times:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A process that performs bootstrapping.
- If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs.2009, Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, Dennis Wallentin, John Green, Professional Excel Development:
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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics One who uses bootstrap methods.
- To a nonparametric bootstrapper, simulation might consist in resampling to obtain the 95% confidence interval of the correlation coefficient […]2009, James R. Thompson, Simulation: A Modeler's Approach, page xi: