Linear quantile mixed models: The lqmm package for laplace quantile regression

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1-29

  Geraci, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric laplace distribution; Non smooth optimization; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899847928     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v057.i13     Document Type: Article

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