Unified Noncrossing Multiple Quantile Regressions Tree
- Authors
- Kim, Jaeoh; Cho, HyungJun; Bang, Sungwan
- Issue Date
- 3-4월-2019
- Publisher
- AMER STATISTICAL ASSOC
- Keywords
- Multiple quantile regression; Noncrossing; Regression tree; Selection bias; Uncertainty coefficient
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS, v.28, no.2, pp.454 - 465
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS
- Volume
- 28
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 454
- End Page
- 465
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/66050
- DOI
- 10.1080/10618600.2018.1546592
- ISSN
- 1061-8600
- Abstract
- In this article, we consider the estimation problem of a tree model for multiple conditional quantile functions of the response. Using the generalized, unbiased interaction detection and estimation algorithm, the quantile regression tree (QRT) method has been developed to construct a tree model for an individual quantile function. However, QRT produces different tree models across quantile levels because it estimates several QRT models separately. Furthermore, the estimated quantile functions from QRT often cross each other and consequently violate the basic properties of quantiles. This undesirable phenomenon reduces prediction accuracy and makes it difficult to interpret the resulting tree models. To overcome such limitations, we propose the unified noncrossing multiple quantile regressions tree (UNQRT) method, which constructs a common tree structure across all interesting quantile levels for better data visualization and model interpretation. Furthermore, the UNQRT estimates noncrossing multiple quantile functions simultaneously by enforcing noncrossing constraints, resulting in the improvement of prediction accuracy. The numerical results are presented to demonstrate the competitive performance of the proposed UNQRT over QRT. for this article are available online.
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