Uniform Confidence Bands for Local Polynomial Quantile Estimators
ESAIM: Probability and Statistics, Volume 18  (2014), p. 265-276

This paper deals with uniform consistency and uniform confidence bands for the quantile function and its derivatives. We describe a kernel local polynomial estimator of quantile function and give uniform consistency. Furthermore, we derive its maximal deviation limit distribution using an approximation in the spirit of Bickel and Rosenblatt [P.J. Bickel and M. Rosenblatt, Ann. Statist. 1 (1973) 1071-1095].

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/ps/2013035
Classification:  62G08,  62G15
Keywords: uniform confidence bands, conditional quantile estimation
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Sabbah, Camille. Uniform Confidence Bands for Local Polynomial Quantile Estimators. ESAIM: Probability and Statistics, Volume 18 (2014) , pp. 265-276. doi : 10.1051/ps/2013035. http://www.numdam.org/item/PS_2014__18__265_0/

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