@CONFERENCE\{IMM2003-01512,
    author       = "D. Malzahn and M. Opper",
    title        = "A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Approximate Analytical Bootstrap Averages",
    year         = "2003",
    keywords     = "Bootstrap, learning curves, Gaussian processes, statistical physics, variational methods",
    booktitle    = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15",
    volume       = "",
    series       = "",
    editor       = "S. Becker, S. Thrun, K. Obermayer",
    publisher    = "{MIT} Press",
    organization = "",
    address      = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/1512-full.html",
    abstract     = "We apply the replica method of Statistical Physics combined with a 
variational method to the approximate analytical computation of bootstrap 
averages for estimating the generalization error. We demonstrate our 
approach on regression with Gaussian processes and compare our 
results with averages obtained by Monte-Carlo sampling."
}