Composite change point estimation for bent line quantile regression

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• 作者：Liwen Zhang ; Huixia Judy Wang ; Zhongyi Zhu
• 关键词：Change point ; Composite quantile regression ; Bent line ; Bootstrap ; Rank score
• 刊名：Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：69
• 期：1
• 页码：145-168
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• 刊物类别：Mathematics and Statistics
• 刊物主题：Statistics, general; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1572-9052
• 卷排序：69

文摘

The bent line quantile regression describes the situation where the conditional quantile function of the response is piecewise linear but still continuous in covariates. In some applications, the change points at which the quantile functions are bent tend to be the same across quantile levels or for quantile levels lying in a certain region. To capture such commonality, we propose a composite estimation procedure to estimate model parameters and the common change point by combining information across quantiles. We establish the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator, and demonstrate the efficiency gain of the composite change point estimator over that obtained at a single quantile level through numerical studies. In addition, three different inference procedures are proposed and compared for hypothesis testing and the construction of confidence intervals. The finite sample performance of the proposed procedures is assessed through a simulation study and the analysis of a real data.