bootstrapper

English

Etymology

bootstrap +‎ -er

Noun

bootstrapper (plural bootstrappers)

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

     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 […]