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Theory and Method

A Smooth Nonparametric Estimator of a Quantile Function

Shie-Shien Yang Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
Pages 1004-1011 | Received 01 Mar 1983, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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