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Quantile-respectful density estimation based on the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator

Methodology 2024-04-08 v1

Abstract

Traditional density and quantile estimators are often inconsistent with each other. Their simultaneous usage may lead to inconsistent results. To address this issue, we propose a novel smooth density estimator that is naturally consistent with the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator. We also provide a jittering implementation to support discrete-continuous mixture distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2404.03835,
  title  = {Quantile-respectful density estimation based on the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator},
  author = {Andrey Akinshin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03835},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

20 pages, 11 figures, the paper source code is available at https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/paper-qrdehd

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