Quantile Curves without Crossing

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 186-192

  He, Xuming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear models; Regression quantiles; Smoothing; Splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031527874     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473959     Document Type: Article

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