On affine equivariant multivariate quantiles

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 380-403

  Chakraborty, Biman ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bahadur representation; L estimates; Multivariate ranks; Q Q plots; Quantile contour plots; Transformation retransformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 6644225562     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012478908041     Document Type: Article

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