---
name: "gbboot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gbutils"
version: "6.3-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gbboot"
---

# gbboot(1)

Bootstrap user provided data

## NAME

gbboot - Bootstrap user provided data

## SYNOPSIS

**gbboot** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Data bootstrap. Random sampling with replacement or addition of noise. In the last case the option **-n** 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

## OPTIONS

- **-n**

  set the number of deviates (default =sample size)

- **-O**

  type of output (default 0):

- 0

  flatten input in one distribution

- 1

  multivariate output: rows with independent columns

- 2

  multivariate output: rows with fixed columns

- 3

  flatten and smoothed (EDF linear interpolation)

- 4

  add noise to data

- 5

  multivariate output: rows with fixed blocks

- **-e**

  noise term ( default .5)

- **-R**

  set the rng seed  (default 0)

- **-F**

  specify the input fields separators (default " \\t")

- **-h**

  print this help

- **-v**

  verbose mode

## AUTHOR

Written by Giulio Bottazzi

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to \<gbutils@googlegroups.com\>

Package home page \<http://cafim.sssup.it/~giulio/software/gbutils/index.html\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 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;

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.