ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY OF THE KERNEL ESTIMATOR OF CONDITIONAL QUANTILES IN A NORMED SPACE

M’hamed Ezzahrioui (France) and Elias Ould-Saïd (France)

Received April 6, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: asymptotic normality, conditional distribution function, kernel estimator, functional data, small balls probability.