Bayesian empirical likelihood for quantile regression

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1102-1131

  Yang, Yunwen ^a   He, Xuming ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Empirical likelihood; High quantiles; Posterior; Prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865719611     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOS1005     Document Type: Article

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