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Activity Number:
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353
- Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Nonparametric Statistics
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Abstract #323464
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Title:
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Conditional Quantiles Under Parametric Model Misspecification: a Simulation Study
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Author(s):
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Bonifride Tuyishimire* and Sergey Tarima and Rodney Sparapani and Lisa Rein and John Meurer
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Companies:
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Medical College of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin
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Keywords:
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quantile regression ;
model misspecification ;
minimum variance ;
minimum MSE ;
personalized medicine
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Abstract:
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We compare statistical modelling of conditional quantiles with four different modelling approaches. The first approach uses maximum likelihood estimation under the assumption that the data came from a parametric distribution. The second approach uses the popular nonparametric quantile regression (Koenker, 1978). The third and fourth approaches combine the parametric and nonparametric quantile regressions into a single estimating procedure targeting minimum variance (MVAR) and minimum mean squared error (MMSE) of conditional quantiles, respectively. The MVAR and MMSE show better performance in terms of mean squared errors when data partially follow an assumed parametric model. MVAR outperforms all models at minor departures from the parametric assumptions, whereas MMSE works better when model violations are more severe. We conclude that even partially correct information on parametric family can be effectively used via combined modelling of parametric and non-parametric approaches to improve conditional quantile estimation.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
