Quantiles for counts

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 472, 2005, Pages 1226-1237

  Machado, José A F ^a   Santos Silva, J M C ^b  

^a NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Jittering; Quantile regression; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744579948     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000330     Document Type: Article

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