Empirical likelihood of conditional quantile difference with left-truncated and dependent data

Abstract

We, in this paper, apply the smoothed and maximum empirical likelihood (EL) methods to construct the confidence intervals of the conditional quantile difference with left-truncated data. In particular, we prove the smoothed empirical log-likelihood ratio of the conditional quantile difference is asymptotically chi-squared when the observations with multivariate covariates form a stationary $$\alpha$$ -mixing sequence. At the same time, we establish the asymptotic normality of the maximum EL estimator for the conditional quantile difference. A simulation study is conducted to investigate the finite sample behavior of the proposed methods and a real data application is provided.