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Confidence tubes for multiple quantile plots via empirical likelihood. (English) Zbl 0957.62038
Summary: The nonparametric empirical likelihood approach is used to obtain simultaneous confidence tubes for multiple quantile plots based on $$k$$ independent (possibly right-censored) samples. These tubes are asymptotically distribution free, except when both $$k\geq 3$$ and censoring is present. Pointwise versions of the confidence tubes, however, are asymptotically distribution free in all cases. The various confidence tubes are valid under minimal conditions. The proposed methods are applied in three real data examples.

##### MSC:
 62G15 Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions 62G20 Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference
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