Bayesian quantile regression: An application to the wage distribution in 1990s Britain

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 359-377

  Yu, Keming ^a   Van Kerm, Philippe ^b,c   Zhang, Jin ^b,c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CEPS/INSTEAD ^*  (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; MCMC; Quantile regression; Wage distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944446909     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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