Rank score and permutation testing alternatives for regression quantile estimates

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 331-355

  Cade, Brian S ^a   Richards, Jon D ^a   Mielke, Paul W ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological limiting factors; Linear model; Permutation procedures; Quantile regression; Rank score statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 30944459702     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360500109168     Document Type: Article

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