Joint Estimation of Quantile Planes Over Arbitrary Predictor Spaces

Yun Yang and Surya T. Tokdar

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2017, vol. 112, issue 519, 1107-1120

Abstract: In spite of the recent surge of interest in quantile regression, joint estimation of linear quantile planes remains a great challenge in statistics and econometrics. We propose a novel parameterization that characterizes any collection of noncrossing quantile planes over arbitrarily shaped convex predictor domains in any dimension by means of unconstrained scalar, vector and function valued parameters. Statistical models based on this parameterization inherit a fast computation of the likelihood function, enabling penalized likelihood or Bayesian approaches to model fitting. We introduce a complete Bayesian methodology by using Gaussian process prior distributions on the function valued parameters and develop a robust and efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation. The resulting method is shown to offer posterior consistency under mild tail and regularity conditions. We present several illustrative examples where the new method is compared against existing approaches and is found to offer better accuracy, coverage and model fit. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2017
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