Methods for Estimating a Conditional Distribution Function

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 154-163

  Hall, Peter ^a   Wolff, Rodney C L ^b   Yao, Qiwei ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolutely regular; Bandwidth; Biased bootstrap; Conditional distribution; Kernel methods; Local linear methods; Local logistic methods; Nadaraya Watson estimator; Prediction; Quantile estimation; Time series analysis; Weighted bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325055     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473832     Document Type: Article

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