Noncrossing quantile regression curve estimation

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 825-838

  Bondell, Howard D ^a   Reich, Brian J ^a   Wang, Huixia ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossing quantile curve; Heteroscedastic error; Quantile regression; Robustness; Smoothing spline; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651310251     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asq048     Document Type: Article

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