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Quantile of a Mixture

Other Statistics 2014-11-19 v1

Abstract

In this note, we give an explicit expression for the quantile of a mixture of two random variables. We carefully examine all possible cases of discrete and continuous variables with possibly unbounded support. The result is useful for finding bounds on the Value-at-Risk of risky portfolios when only partial information is available (Bernard and Vanduffel (2014)).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1411.4824,
  title  = {Quantile of a Mixture},
  author = {Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4824},
  year   = {2014}
}
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