COMPSTAT 2002 - Proceedings in Computational Statistics
Subtitle: 15th Symposium held in Berlin, Germany, 2002
Contributors: Wolfgang Härdle (Editor); Bernd Rönz (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Published: September 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9783790815177
Subjects: Mathematical & statistical software; Mathematics; Mathematical Statistics; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Probability & Statistics - General; General; Statistics; Computational Statistics; Mathematics / Statistics; Multimedia Teaching; Multivariate Statistical Analysis; Robust Statistical Analysis; Statistical Risk Management; Data Processing - General
First sentence: The classical problem of estimating quantiles (also known as centiles and per-centiles) is a well-known one: given a random sample y1,    ,yn from some distribution or from a reference population, estimate the a quantile, e.g., a = 0.25 is the lower quartile.