Calibrated interpolated confidence intervals for population quantiles

Biometrika

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 234-241

  Ho, Yvonne H S ^a   Lee, Stephen M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Calibration; Interpolation; Quantile; Smoothed bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844375663     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/92.1.234     Document Type: Article

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