Small sample performance of quantile regression confidence intervals

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-94

  Tarr, Garth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bootstrap; confidence intervals; quantile regression; simulation study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855876292     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2010.527844     Document Type: Article

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