Abstract A New Confidence Interval Method for the Estimation of Quantiles

Confidence intervals for the median of estimators or other quantiles were proposed as a substitute for usual confidence intervals in terminating and steady-state simulation. This is adequate since for many estimators the median and the expectation are close together or coincide, particularly if the sample size is large. The novel confidence intervals are easy to obtain, the variance of the estimator is not used. They are well suited for correlated simulation output data, apply to functions of estimators, and in simulation they seem to be particularly accurate. For the estimation of quantiles by order statistics, the new confidence intervals are exact.