Calibrated interpolated confidence intervals for population quantiles
总体分位数的校准插值置信区间
Beran & Hall's (1993) simple linear interpolation provides a very convenient approach for constructing nonparametric confidence intervals for population quantiles based on a random sample of size n. We show that the coverage error of the interpolated interval, which is of order O(n−1), can be improved upon by calibrating the nominal coverage level. Three distinct methods of calibration are considered. The analytical and Monte Carlo methods succeed in reducing the order of…