Quantile regression via vector generalized additive models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2295-2315

  Yee, Thomas W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Age reference centile analysis; Gaussian quadrature; LMS quantile regression; Penalized likelihood; S language; Vector generalized additive models; Vector generalized linear models; Vector splines; Yeo Johnson transformation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION GROUPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 3242775487     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1822     Document Type: Article

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