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Weighted quantile estimators

Methodology 2023-04-17 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a generic scheme that allows building weighted versions of various quantile estimators, such as traditional quantile estimators based on linear interpolation of two order statistics, the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator and its trimmed modification. The obtained weighted quantile estimators are especially useful in the problem of estimating a distribution at the tail of a time series using quantile exponential smoothing. The presented approach can also be applied to other problems, such as quantile estimation of weighted mixture distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07265,
  title  = {Weighted quantile estimators},
  author = {Andrey Akinshin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07265},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

28 pages, 13 figures, the paper source code is available at https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/paper-wqe