-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Koenker [mailto:rkoenker at illinois.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:42 PM
To: PIKAL Petr
Cc: r-help at r-project.org help
Subject: Re: [R] standard error for quantile
Petr,
You can do:
require(quantreg)
summary(rq(x ~ 1, tau = c(.10,.50,.99))
url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker
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On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Petr:
1. Not an R question.
2. You want the distribution of order statistics. Search on that.
basically binomial/beta.
-- Bert
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:46 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
Dear all
I have a question about quantiles standard error, partly practical
partly theoretical. I know that
x<-rlnorm(100000, log(200), log(2))
quantile(x, c(.10,.5,.99))
computes quantiles but I would like to know if there is any function
to find standard error (or any dispersion measure) of these
values.
And here is a theoretical one. I feel that when I compute median
given set of values it will have lower standard error then 0.1
quantile computed from the same set of values.
Is it true? If yes can you point me to some reasoning?
Thanks for all answers.
Regards
Petr
PS.
I found mcmcse package which shall compute the standard error but
which I could not make to work probably because I do not have recent
R-devel version installed
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
could not find function ".getNamespace"
Error : unable to load R code in package 'mcmcse'
Error: package/namespace load failed for 'mcmcse'
Maybe I will also something find in quantreg package, but I did not
went through it yet.