This book contains 30 selected, refereed papers from an international conference on bootstrapping and related techniques held in Trier in 1990. The book presents information on recent research in the area of bootstrap, jackknife and Monte Carlo tests. Addressing the novice and the expert, it covers both theoretical and practical aspects of these statistical techniques. Potential users in such different disciplines as biometry, epidemiology, computer science, economics and sociology as well as theoretical researchers should find this book of interest.