Kernel Quantile Estimators

Kernel Quantile Estimators

SUMMARY The estimation of population quantiles is of great interest when one is not prepared to assume a parametric form for the u.nderlying distribution. In addition, quantiles often arise as the natural thing to estimate when the underlying distribution is skewed. The sample quantile is a popular nonparametric estimator of the corresponding population quantile. Being a function of at most two...

New Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Quantile Estimators

We propose a cross-validation method suitable for smoothing of kernel quantile estimators. In particular, our proposed method selects the bandwidth parameter, which is known to play a crucial role in kernel smoothing, based on unbiased estimation of a mean integrated squared error curve of which the minimising value determines an optimal bandwidth. This method is shown to lead to asymptotically...

Simple Kernel Estimators for

We consider deconvolution problems where the observations are equal in distribution to Here the random variables in the sums are independent, the E i are exponentially distributed, the L i are Laplace distributed and Y has an unknown distribution F which we want to estimate. The constants i or i are given. These problems include exponential, gamma and Laplace deconvolution. We derive inversion ...

Deconvoluting Kernel Density Estimators

This paper considers estimation of a continuous bounded probability density when observations from the density are contaminated by additive measurement errors having a known distribution. Properties of the estimator obtained by deconvolving a kernel estimator of the observed data are investigated. When the kernel used is sufficiently smooth the deconvolved estimator is shown to be pointwise con...

Pruning kernel density estimators