Identifying risk factors for severe childhood malnutrition by boosting additive quantile regression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 106, Issue 494, 2011, Pages 494-510

  Fenske, Nora ^a   Kneib, Thomas ^b   Hothorn, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive models; Functional gradient boosting; Model choice; Penalized splines; Stunting; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960127235     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2011.ap09272     Document Type: Article

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