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Simultaneous closeness among order statistics to population quantiles

Authors :
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Katherine F. Davies
Robert L. Mason
Jerome P. Keating
Source :
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 140:2408-2415
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2010.

Abstract

We derive expressions for the probability that an individual order statistic is closest to the target parameter among the order statistics from a complete random sample. Results are given for random variables with bounded and complete support. We then apply these general results to location-scale parameter families of distributions with specific applications to estimation of percentiles. In this case, simultaneous-closeness probabilities depend upon the parameters through the value of p in the percentile and the sample size, n. Results are finally illustrated with the estimation of percentiles for normal and exponential distributions.

Details

ISSN :
03783758
Volume :
140
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Accession number :
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