Smoothed empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the difference of quantiles

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-95

  Zhou, Wang ^a   Jing, Bing Yi ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Confidence interval; Quantile difference; Smoothed empirical likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038185314     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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