Noninformative nonparametric Bayesian estimation of quantiles

Glen Meeden

doi:10.1016/0167-7152(93)90153-A

Noninformative nonparametric Bayesian estimation of quantiles

Glen Meeden

Statistics (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

In 1981 Rubin introduced the Bayesian bootstrap and argued that it was the natural Bayesian analogue to the usual bootstrap. We show here that when estimating a population quantile in a nonparametric problem it yields estimators that are often preferred to the natural naive estimators based on the order statistic.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	103-109
Number of pages	7
Journal	Statistics and Probability Letters
Volume	16
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(93)90153-A
State	Published - 1993

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Bayesian bootstrap
noninformative Bayes
nonparametric estimation
order statistic
quantile

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Noninformative nonparametric Bayesian estimation of quantiles

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