Table : TABLE 18-10. Bootstrapping Bootstrapping is a statistical process whereby we have an original sample and then draw additional samples from that original sample as if the original sample represented the entire population. Here we have five possible samples, along with their means, drawn from the original sample of 1, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 12, and 13. All samples are drawn with replacement, so for each new sample, the same score might show up more than once and some scores might not be pulled at all.