Nonparametric estimation of conditional quantiles using quantile regression trees

Bernoulli

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 561-576

  Chaudhuri, Probal ^a   Loh, Wei Yin ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Derivative estimate; GUIDE algorithm; Piecewise polynomial estimates; Recursive partitioning; Tree structured regression; Uniform asymptotic consistency; Vapnik Chervonenkis class

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442479272     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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