Logistic quantile regression for bounded outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 309-317

  Bottai, Matteo ^a   Cai, Bo ^a   McKeown, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded outcomes; Conditional quantiles; Quantile regression; Robust regression; Transformations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 74749105039     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3781     Document Type: Article

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