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.TH GBBOOT "1" "March 2018" "gbboot 5.7.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
gbboot \- Bootstrap user provided data
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gbboot
[\fI\,options\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Data bootstrap. Random sampling with replacement or addition
of noise. In the last case the option \fB\-n\fR set the number of
times the entire sample is printed with a random noise added.
The noise is uniformly distributed around zero with semi\-width
equal to the minimal positive distance between consecutives
observations times a fraction set with option
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-n\fR
set the number of deviates (default =sample size)
.TP
\fB\-O\fR
type of output (default 0):
.TP
0
flatten input in one distribution
.TP
1
multivariate output: rows with independent columns
.TP
2
multivariate output: rows with fixed columns
.TP
3
flatten and smoothed (EDF linear interpolation)
.TP
4
add noise to data
.TP
5
multivariate output: rows with fixed blocks
.TP
\fB\-e\fR
noise term ( default .5)
.TP
\fB\-R\fR
set the rng seed  (default 0)
.TP
\fB\-F\fR
specify the input fields separators (default " \et")
.TP
\fB\-h\fR
print this help
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
verbose mode
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Giulio Bottazzi
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <gbutils@googlegroups.com>
.PP
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Package home page <http://cafim.sssup.it/~giulio/software/gbutils/index.html>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2001\-2018 Giulio Bottazzi
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(version 2) as published by the Free Software Foundation;
.PP
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.