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Stat 5101 Lecture Notes - School of Statistics

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182 <strong>Stat</strong> <strong>5101</strong> (Geyer) Course <strong>Notes</strong>That is, when we put parentheses around the subscripts, that means we have putthe values in ascending order. For any real number x, the notation ⌈x⌉ denotesthe smallest integer greater than or equal to x, which is called the ceiling <strong>of</strong> x,and the notation ⌊x⌋ denotes the largest integer less than or equal to x, whichis called the floor <strong>of</strong> x,Theorem 7.5. If np is not an integer, then the p-th quantile <strong>of</strong> the empiricaldistribution associated with the vector x is unique and is equal to x (⌈np⌉) .When np is an integer, then any point x such thatis a p-th quantile.x (np) ≤ x ≤ x (np+1) (7.9)Pro<strong>of</strong>. The p-th quantile must be a point x such that there are at least np <strong>of</strong>the x i at or below x and at least n(1 − p) atorabovex.In the case that np is not an integer, let k = ⌈np⌉. Since np is not an integer,and ⌈np⌉ is the least integer greater than k, we have k>np>k−1. What wemust show is that x (k) is the unique p-th quantile.There are at least k>npdata pointsx (1) ≤···≤x (k)at or below x (k) . Furthermore, if ik, then n − i +1≤n−k

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