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Is centering needed when bootstrapping the sample mean?

When reading about how to approximate the distribution of the sample mean I came across the nonparametric bootstrap method. Apparently one can approximate the distribution of $\bar{X}_n-\mu$ by the ...
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Shifting bootstrap confidence interval to be centered around original parameter

I've been doing a bit of research into bootstrapping as I've been told one method of performing it, and this seems to differ from what I can find in other sources. I have a sample, and want to ...