Quantile regression for binary performance indicators

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 24, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 401-418

  Hewson, Paul ^a   Yu, Keming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian quantile regression; MCMC; Performance indicators

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; BAYESIAN METHODS; BAYESIAN QUANTILE REGRESSION; COVARIATES; ENGLAND; LOCAL GOVERNMENTS; MCMC; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; QUANTILE REGRESSIONS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 55349149333     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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