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Hello there,recently I came across this term,but really have no idea what it refers to.I've searched online,but with little gain. Thanks.

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In machine learning bootstrapping is iterative training on a known set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(machine_learning)

leonm
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If you don't have enough data to train your algorithm you can increase the size of your training set by (uniformly) randomly selecting items and duplicating them (with replacement).

Michael Clerx