Misspecification testing in a class of conditional distributional models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 108, Issue 501, 2013, Pages 314-324

  Rothe, Christoph ^a   Wied, Dominik ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cramer von Mises distance; Distributional regression; Location scale model; Quantile regression; Wage distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878216386     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.736903     Document Type: Article

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