One-dimensional quantile-stratified sampling and its application in statistical simulations
Methodology
2025-09-09 v2 Statistics Theory
Computation
Other Statistics
Statistics Theory
Abstract
In this paper we examine quantile-stratified samples from a known univariate probability distribution, with stratification occurring over a partition of the quantile regions in the distribution. We examine some general properties of this sampling method and we contrast it with standard IID sampling to highlight its similarities and differences. We examine the applications of this sampling method to various statistical simulations including importance sampling. We conduct simulation analysis to compare the performance of standard importance sampling against the quantile-stratified importance sampling to see how they each perform on a range of functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.07437,
title = {One-dimensional quantile-stratified sampling and its application in statistical simulations},
author = {Ben O'Neill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07437},
year = {2025}
}