Linear Quantile Mixed Models: The<b>lqmm</b>Package for Laplace Quantile Regression 论文

2014Journal of Statistical Software引用 261顶会
Statistical Methods and Bayesian InferenceStatistical Methods and InferenceBayesian Methods and Mixture Models

摘要

Inference in quantile analysis has received considerable attention in the recent years. Linear quantile mixed models (Geraci and Bottai 2014) represent a flexible statistical tool to analyze data from sampling designs such as multilevel, spatial, panel or longitudinal, which induce some form of clustering. In this paper, I will show how to estimate conditional quantile functions with random effects using the R package lqmm. Modeling, estimation and inference are discussed in detail using a real data example. A thorough description of the optimization algorithms is also provided.