Estimating a Quantile of a Symmetric Distribution
对称分布的分位数估计
The problem is to estimate a quantile of a symmetric distribution. The cases of known and unknown center are studied for small and large samples. The estimators for known center are the sample quantile, the symmetrized sample quantile, the sample quantile from flipped over data, the Rao-Blackwellized sample quantile, and a Bayes estimator using a Dirichlet prior. For center unknown, we study the analogues of the first four estimators listed above. For small samples and…