Quantile tomography: Using quantiles with multivariate data

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1589-1610

  Kong, Linglong ^a   Mizera, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data depth; Growth charts; Quantile regression; Quantiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866874265     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5705/ss.2010.224     Document Type: Article

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