M-estimation, convexity and quantiles
M 估计、凸性与分位数
The paper develops a class of extensions of the univariate quantile function to the multivariate case (M-quantiles), related in a certain way to M-parameters of a probability distribution and their M-estimators. The spatial (geometric) quantiles, recently introduced by Koltchinskii and Dudley and by Chaudhuri as well as the regression quantiles of Koenker and Basset, are the examples of the M-quantile function discussed in the paper. We study the main properties of…