Bent Line Quantile Regression with Application to an Allometric Study of Land Mammals' Speed and Mass

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 242-249

  Li, Chenxi ^a   Wei, Ying ^b   Chappell, Rick ^a,c   He, Xuming ^d  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahadur representation; Bootstrap; Change point; Piecewise linear; Profile estimation

Indexed keywords

PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALLOMETRICS; BAHADUR REPRESENTATION; BOOTSTRAP; CHANGE-POINTS; COVARIATES; LAND MAMMALS; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PIECEWISE-LINEAR; PROFILE ESTIMATION; QUANTILE REGRESSION;

MAMMALS;

ALLOMETRY; BOOTSTRAPPING; LINEARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952593489     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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