confint.midquantile: Mid-distribution Functions

In Qtools: Utilities for Quantiles

Mid-distribution Functions

Description

Compute mid-quantiles confidence intervals

Usage

## S3 method for class 'midquantile'
confint(object, parm = NULL, level = 0.95, ...)

Arguments

object	an object of class midquantile.
parm	not used (included for consistency with confint.default).
level	nominal coverage level of the confidence interval.
...	not used.

Author(s)

Marco Geraci

References

Ma Y., Genton M., and Parzen E. Asymptotic properties of sample quantiles of discrete distributions. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 2011;63(2):227-243

Parzen E. Quantile probability and statistical data modeling. Statistical Science 2004;19(4):652-62.

Examples

x <- rpois(100, lambda = 3)
mq <- midquantile(x)
confint(mq, level = 0.95)

# print standard errors
attributes(confint(mq, level = 0.95))$stderr

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