Combining regression quantile estimators

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1171-1191

  Shan, Kejia ^a   Yang, Yuhong ^b  

^a AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive quantile regression; Aggregation of estimators; Model combination

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349240477     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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