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Quantile regression. Volume 2, Estimation and simulation / Marilena Furno Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, Domenico Vistocco, Department of Economics and Law, University of Cassino, Italy

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Wiley Series in Probability and StatisticsSet: Quantile regression.Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 287 Seiten) : Illustrationen, DiagrammeISBN:
  • 9781118863718
  • 9781118863602
  • 1118863607
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781119975281 | Erscheint auch als: Quantile regression. Druck-Ausgabe Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2018. xviii, 287 SeitenDDC classification:
  • 519.5/36
MSC: MSC: *62-02 | 62G08 | 62Jxx | 62M10Local classification: Lokale Notation: math 8.271LOC classification:
  • QA278.2
DOI: DOI: 10.1002/9781118863718Online resources: Summary: 1.4 A typical QR model: The case of a quantitative regressor1.5 Summary of key points; References; 2 Quantile regression: Understanding how and why; Introduction; 2.1 How and why quantile regression works; 2.1.1 The general linear programming problem; 2.1.2 The linear programming formulation for the QR problem; 2.1.3 Methods for solving the linear programming problem; 2.2 A set of illustrative artificial data; 2.2.1 Homogeneous error models; 2.2.2 Heterogeneous error models; 2.2.3 Dependent data error models; 2.3 How and why to work with QR; 2.3.1 QR for homogeneous and heterogeneous models.Summary: 2.3.2 QR prediction intervals2.3.3 A note on the quantile process; 2.4 Summary of key points; References; 3 Estimated coefficients and inference; Introduction; 3.1 Empirical distribution of the quantile regression estimator; 3.1.1 The case of i.i.d. errors; 3.1.2 The case of i.ni.d. errors; 3.1.3 The case of dependent errors; 3.2 Inference in QR, the i.i.d. case; 3.3 Wald, Lagrange multiplier, and likelihood ratio tests; 3.4 Summary of key points; References; 4 Additional tools for the interpretation and evaluation of thequantile regression model; Introduction; 4.1 Data pre-processing.Summary: 4.1.1 Explanatory variable transformations4.1.2 Dependent variable transformations; 4.2 Response conditional density estimations; 4.2.1 The case of different scenario simulations; 4.2.2 The case of the response variable reconstruction; 4.3 Validation of the model; 4.3.1 Goodness of fit; 4.3.2 Resampling methods; 4.4 Summary of key points; References; 5 Models with dependent and with non-identically distributed data; Introduction; 5.1 A closer look at the scale parameter, the independent andidentically distributed case; 5.1.1 Estimating the variance of quantile regressions.Summary: 5.1.2 Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing on theestimated coefficients5.1.3 Example for the i.i.d. case; 5.2 The non-identically distributed case; 5.2.1 Example for the non-identically distributed case; 5.2.2 Quick ways to test equality of coefficients across quantilesin Stata; 5.2.3 The wage equation revisited; 5.3 The dependent data model; 5.3.1 Example with dependent data; 5.4 Summary of key points; References; Appendix 5.A Heteroskedasticity tests and weighted quantileregression, Stata and R codes.Summary: A guide to the implementation and interpretation of Quantile Regression models This book explores the theory and numerous applications of quantile regression, offering empirical data analysis as well as the software tools to implement the methods. The main focus of this book is to provide the reader with a comprehensivedescription of the main issues concerning quantile regression; these include basic modeling, geometrical interpretation, estimation and inference for quantile regression, as well as issues on validity of the model, diagnostic tools. Each methodological aspeSummary: Quantile Regression: Theory and Applications; Copyright; Contents; A.2.2 Summary statistics; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Nomenclature; 1 A visual introduction to quantile regression; Introduction; 1.1 The essential toolkit; 1.1.1 Unconditional mean, unconditional quantiles and surroundings; 1.1.2 Technical insight: Quantiles as solutions of a minimizationproblem; 1.1.3 Conditional mean, conditional quantiles and surroundings; 1.2 The simplest QR model: The case of the dummy regressor; 1.3 A slightly more complex QR model: The case of a nominal regressor.PPN: PPN: 1585787388Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-35-UBC | ZDB-35-WIC
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