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We extend the well known transformation technique for order statistics to get less restrictive conditions for the Bahadur representation of sample quantiles.
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de Haan, L., Taconis-Haantjes, E. On Bahadur's representation of sample quantiles. Ann Inst Stat Math 31, 299–308 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480286
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02480286