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Bernd Scherer has done exactly this test in his text "Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting 4th Edition". There is an SSRN paper by Scherer called "Resampled Efficiency and Portfolio Choice (2004)" you can take a look at as well.
I would suggest you skip re-sampling (especially if you have a long-only portfolio) and take a look at Meucci's Robot ...
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There is a great deal of misinformation and out-of-date information on this site. Many of the references in this discussion and elsewhere have serious research flaws.
The Michaud efficient frontier was invented and patented by Robert Michaud and Richard Michaud, U.S. patent # 6,003,018. The alternatives discussed here are not patented nor in many cases ...
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You are going to need to interpolate in some way shape or form....
Linear is the easiest and most basic, however it may not capture the curvature, you can use splines to better capture the curve.
A nice guide to doing so is here:
It's a guide to bootstrapping and it has all the components.
http://www.business.mcmaster.ca/finance/deavesr/yieldcur.pdf
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