Lasso methods are regularization and shrinkage methods widely used for subset selection and estimation in regression problems. From a Bayesian perspective, the Lasso-type estimate can be viewed as a Bayesian posterior mode when specifying independent Laplace prior distributions for the coefficients of independent variables (Park and Casella, 2008). A scale mixture of normal priors can also prov...

Binary logistic regression is a well-known and widely used technique in psychology health sciences. This allows the introduction of all types regressors very flexible terms assumptions; it requires random sample n participants evaluated on k predictor variables that show low collinearity dichotomous qualitative variable predicted variable. A practice found with relative frequency this field res...

Tropospheric ozone is one of the six criteria pollutants regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act and has been linked with several adverse health effects, including mortality. Due to the strong dependence on weather conditions, ozone may be sensitive to climate change and there is great interest in studying the potential effect of climate change on ...

Conditional quantile curves provide a comprehensive picture of a response contingent on explanatory variables. Quantile regression is a technique to estimate such curves. In a flexible modeling framework, a specific form of the quantile is not a priori fixed. Indeed, the majority of applications do not per se require specific functional forms. This motivates a local parametric rather than a glo...

Classical regression methods have focused mainly on estimating conditional mean functions. In recent years, however, quantile regression has emerged as a comprehensive approach to the statistical analysis of response models. In this article we consider the L1-norm (LASSO) regularized quantile regression (L1-norm QR), which uses the sum of the absolute values of the coefficients as the penalty. ...

Statistical Science) Bayesian Spatial Quantile Regression by Kristian Lum Department of Statistical Science Duke University

This paper is a study of the application of Bayesian Exponentially Tilted Empirical Likelihood to inference about quantile regressions. In the case of simple quantiles we show the exact form for the likelihood implied by this method and compare it with the Bayesian bootstrap and with Jeffreys’ method. For regression quantiles we derive the asymptotic form of the posterior density. We also exami...

An algorithm for computing parametric linear quantile regression estimates subject to linear inequality constraints is described. The algorithm is a variant of the interior point algorithm described in Koenker and Portnoy (1997) for unconstrained quantile regression and is consequently quite efficient even for large problems, particularly when the inherent sparsity of the resulting linear algeb...