Nonlinear dimension reduction for conditional quantiles

Eliana Christou (), Annabel Settle and Andreas Artemiou
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Eliana Christou: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Annabel Settle: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Andreas Artemiou: Cardiff University

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 2021, vol. 15, issue 4, No 5, 937-956

Abstract: Abstract In practice, data often display heteroscedasticity, making quantile regression (QR) a more appropriate methodology. Modeling the data, while maintaining a flexible nonparametric fitting, requires smoothing over a high-dimensional space which might not be feasible when the number of the predictor variables is large. This problem makes necessary the use of dimension reduction techniques for conditional quantiles, which focus on extracting linear combinations of the predictor variables without losing any information about the conditional quantile. However, nonlinear features can achieve greater dimension reduction. We, therefore, present the first nonlinear extension of the linear algorithm for estimating the central quantile subspace (CQS) using kernel data. First, we describe the feature CQS within the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert space, and second, we illustrate its performance through simulation examples and real data applications. Specifically, we emphasize on visualizing various aspects of the data structure using the first two feature extractors, and we highlight the ability to combine the proposed algorithm with classification and regression linear algorithms. The results show that the feature CQS is an effective kernel tool for performing nonlinear dimension reduction for conditional quantiles.

Keywords: Classification; Dimension reduction; Quantile regression; Reproducing kernel Hilbert space; Visualization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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