bootstrapper

bootstrapper

English

Etymology

bootstrap +‎ -er

Noun

bootstrapper (plural bootstrappers)

1. Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.
   • 2009, January 18, “George Vecsey”, in A Journey From Ebbets Field to the Steps of the Capitol‎:

     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.

2. (computing) A process that performs bootstrapping.
   • 2009, Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, Dennis Wallentin, John Green, Professional Excel Development

     If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs.

3. (statistics) One who uses bootstrap methods.
   • 2009, James R. Thompson, Simulation: A Modeler's Approach (page xi)

     To a nonparametric bootstrapper, simulation might consist in resampling to obtain the 95% confidence interval of the correlation coefficient […]