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9. Order Statistics and Quantiles
Jenny A. Baglivo
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Abstract
In many statistical applications, interest focuses on estimating the quantiles of a continuous distribution or conducting hypothesis tests about the quantiles. For example, a medical researcher might be interested in determining the median lifetime of patients with a serious illness, or a geophysicist might be interested in determining the 90th percentile of the distribution of earthquake magnitudes in a region.