Weighted quantile estimators

by Andrey Akinshin · 2023

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a generic scheme that allows building weighted versions of various quantile estimators, such as traditional quantile estimators based on linear interpolation of two order statistics, the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator and its trimmed modification. The obtained weighted quantile estimators are especially useful in the problem of estimating a distribution at the tail of a time series using quantile exponential smoothing. The presented approach can also be applied to other problems, such as quantile estimation of weighted mixture distributions.

Reference

Andrey Akinshin “Weighted quantile estimators” (2023) arXiv:2304.07265

@Article{akinshin2023wqe,
  title = {Weighted quantile estimators},
  author = {Akinshin, Andrey},
  year = {2023},
  month = {4},
  arxiv = {2304.07265},
  abstract = {In this paper, we consider a generic scheme that allows building weighted versions of various quantile estimators, such as traditional quantile estimators based on linear interpolation of two order statistics, the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator and its trimmed modification. The obtained weighted quantile estimators are especially useful in the problem of estimating a distribution at the tail of a time series using quantile exponential smoothing. The presented approach can also be applied to other problems, such as quantile estimation of weighted mixture distributions.}
}