Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79340
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP10/07
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
The most common approach to estimating conditional quantile curves is to fit a curve, typically linear, pointwise for each quantile. Linear functional forms, coupled with pointwise fitting, are used for a number of reasons including parsimony of the resulting approximations and good computational properties. The resulting fits, however, may not respect a logical monotonicity requirement that the quantile curve be increasing as a function of probability. This paper studies the natural monotonization of these empirical curves induced by sampling from the estimated non-monotone model, and then taking the resulting conditional quantile curves that by construction are monotone in the probability.
Subjects: 
Quantile regression , Monotonicity , Rearrangement , Approximation , Functional Delta Method , Hadamard Differentiability of Rearrangement Operators
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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