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Asymptotic representation theory for nonstandard conditional quantiles 

Author: Abdelaati Daouia ab
Affiliations:   a Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabiliteacutes, Institut de Matheacutematiques, UMR C5583, Universiteacute Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 4, France
b GREMAQ, UMR CNRS 5604, Universiteacute des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse Cedex, France
DOI: 10.1080/1048525042000213021
Publication Frequency: 8 issues per year
Published in: journal Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Volume 17, Issue 2 March 2005 , pages 253 - 268
Number of References: 19
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Abstract

The joint distribution of a random vector (X, Y) in Ropfp times Ropf is usually described through the conditional quantiles of Y given X = x. In this article, we rather concentrate on the quantiles of Y conditioned by Xx. Such quantiles can be estimated simply by inverting the empirical version of the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of Y given Xx. In Aragon et al.. [Aragon, Y., Daouia, A. and Thomas-Agnan, C. (2002). Nonparametric frontier estimation: A conditional quantile-based approach. Discussion paper, GREMAQ et LSP, Universiteacute de Toulouse (http://www.univ-tlse1.fr/GREMAQ/Statistique/adt1202.pdf). Forthcoming in Econometric Theory.], the study of these empirical conditional quantiles was initiated in the context of estimating the production frontier, i.e., the set of the most efficient firms in a production technology. The weak consistency and asymptotic normality have been proved. This article is mainly devoted to prove an asymptotic linear representation, in the almost sure sense, for these nonparametric quantiles in terms of the conditional empirical cdf, and to provide an asymptotic bound for the error term involved. A Donsker-type functional convergence result is proved for the conditional empirical cdf and consequently, a theorem on the asymptotic limit of the conditional empirical quantile process is derived.
Keywords: Conditional quantile; Bahadur representation; Functional convergence
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