Linear censored quantile regression: A novel minimum‐distance approach

Mickaël De Backer (), Anouar El Ghouch () and Ingrid Van Keilegom ()
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Mickaël De Backer: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium
Anouar El Ghouch: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium
Ingrid Van Keilegom: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium

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Abstract: In this article, we investigate a new procedure for the estimation of a linear quantile regression with possibly right‐censored responses. Contrary to the main literature on the subject, we propose in this context to circumvent the formulation of conditional quantiles through the so‐called “check” loss function that stems from the influential work of Koenker and Bassett (1978). Instead, our suggestion is here to estimate the quantile coefficients by minimizing an alternative measure of distance. In fact, our approach could be qualified as a generalization in a parametric regression framework of the technique consisting in inverting the conditional distribution of the response given the covariates. This is motivated by the knowledge that the main literature for censored data already relies on some nonparametric conditional distribution estimation as well. The ideas of effective dimension reduction are then exploited in order to accommodate for higher dimensional settings as well in this context. Extensive numerical results then suggest that such an approach provides a strongly competitive procedure to the classical approaches based on the check function, in fact both for complete and censored observations. From a theoretical prospect, both consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator for linear regression are obtained under classical regularity conditions. As a by‐product, several asymptotic results on some “double‐kernel” version of the conditional Kaplan–Meier distribution estimator based on effective dimension reduction, and its corresponding density estimator, are also obtained and may be of interest on their own. A brief application of our procedure to quasar data then serves to further highlight the relevance of the latter for quantile regression estimation with censored data.

Date: 2020-05-31
Note: In : Scandinavian Journal of Statistics - Vol. 47, p. 1275-1306, 2020
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DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12475

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