Exact convergence rate of bootstrap quantile variance estimator

Abstract

It is shown that the relative error of the bootstrap quantile variance estimator is of precise order n-1/4, when n denotes sample size. Likewise, the error of the bootstrap sparsity function estimator is of precise order n-1/4. Therefore as point estimators these estimators converge more slowly than the Bloch-Gastwirth estimator and kernel estimators, which typically have smaller error of order at most n-2/5. © 1988 Springer-Verlag.