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Trimmed Harrell-Davis quantile estimator based on the highest density interval of the given width

Methodology 2022-08-30 v4

Abstract

Traditional quantile estimators that are based on one or two order statistics are a common way to estimate distribution quantiles based on the given samples. These estimators are robust, but their statistical efficiency is not always good enough. A more efficient alternative is the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator which uses a weighted sum of all order statistics. Whereas this approach provides more accurate estimations for the light-tailed distributions, it's not robust. To be able to customize the trade-off between statistical efficiency and robustness, we could consider a trimmed modification of the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator. In this approach, we discard order statistics with low weights according to the highest density interval of the beta distribution.

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@article{arxiv.2111.11776,
  title  = {Trimmed Harrell-Davis quantile estimator based on the highest density interval of the given width},
  author = {Andrey Akinshin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.11776},
  year   = {2022}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures, the paper source code is available at https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/paper-thdqe

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