Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79336 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP22/02
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper studies the estimation of conditional quantiles of counts. Given the discreteness of the data, some smoothness has to be artificially imposed on the problem. The methods currently available to estimate quantiles of count data either assume that the counts result from the discretization of a continuous process, or are based on a smoothed objective function. However, these methods have several drawbacks. We show that it is possible to smooth the data in a way that allows inference to be performed using standard quantile regression techniques. The performance and implementation of the estimator are illustrated by simulations and an application.
Subjects: 
Asymmetric maximum likelihood, Jittering, Maximum score estimator, Quantile regression, Smoothing
JEL: 
C21
C25
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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