Nonparametric quantile inference using dirichlet processes

Advances In Statistical Modeling And Inference: Essays In Honor Of Kjell A Doksum

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 463-492

  Hjort, Nils Lid ^a   Petrone, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian bootstrap; Bayesian quantile regression; Bernshte n von mises theorem; Comparison distribution; Dirichlet process; Doksum s shift function; Lorenz curve; Nonparametric bayes; Quantile inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549103950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812708298_0023     Document Type: Chapter

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