Empirical likelihood for quantiles under negatively associated samples

In this paper, we study the construction of confidence intervals for quantiles of a population under a negatively associated sample by using the blockwise technique. It is shown that the blockwise empirical likelihood (EL) ratio statistic is asymptotically χ 2 ‐type distributed. The result is used to obtain EL based confidence intervals for quantiles of a population. Results of a simulation study on the finite sample performance of the proposed confidence intervals are reported.