Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189682 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP01/17
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper is concerned with inference about the conditional quantile function in a nonparametric quantile regression model. Any method for constructing a confidence interval or band for this function must deal with the asymptotic bias of nonparametric estimators of the function. In estimation methods such as local polynomial estimation, this is usually done through undersmoothing or explicit bias correction. The latter usually requires oversmoothing. However, there are no satisfactory empirical methods for selecting bandwidths that under- or oversmooth. This paper extends the bootstrap method of Hall and Horowitz (2013) for conditional mean functions to conditional quantile functions. The paper also shows how the bootstrap method can be used to obtain uniform confidence bands. The bootstrap method uses only bandwidths that are selected by standard methods such as cross validation and plug-in. It does not use under- or oversmoothing. The results of Monte Carlo experiments illustrate the numerical performance of the bootstrap method.
Subjects: 
Quantile regression
smoothing
confidence band
bootstrap
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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