Download or read book Statistical Modelling with Quantile Functions written by Warren Gilchrist and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galton used quantiles more than a hundred years ago in describing data. Tukey and Parzen used them in the 60s and 70s in describing populations. Since then, the authors of many papers, both theoretical and practical, have used various aspects of quantiles in their work. Until now, however, no one put all the ideas together to form what turns out to