I believe there is a misprint in the web address as I could not connect to
it. However, the address
http://www.mbland.sghms.ac.uk/
works.
Regards
Natalia.
Natalia Botchkina
Statistician
Oxford GlycoSciences
4 The Quadrant
Abingdon Science Park
Oxfordshire
OX14 3YS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Bland [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: QUERY: Estimator
>
> This query comes up regularly on allstat. I have put an answer to in,
> taken from my book An Introduction to Medical Statistics, on my website,
> address below.
>
> Martin
>
> Jay Bryant wrote:
> >
> > hi.
> >
> > i have n samples x1, x2,...,xn of a random variable x
> > of an unknown distribution. i want to estimate the 95%
> > ci of the 100*alpha percentile of x (for example the
> > ci for the 5% percentile of x). i thought of using the
> > bootstrap, but is this mathematically justifiable
> > since the statitic "100*alpha percentile" is not
> > really a functional statistic?
> > any suggestions and ideas would be greatly
> > appreciated. thanks.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > j.
> >
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