Dominici, Francesca; Cope, Leslie; Naiman, Daniel Q.; … - In: Biometrika 92 (2005) 3, pp. 543-557
We propose a novel approach to estimating the mean difference between two highly skewed distributions. The method, which we call smooth quantile ratio estimation, smooths, over percentiles, the ratio of the quantiles of the two distributions. The method defines a large class of estimators,...