Journal | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics |
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Date | Accepted/In press - 18 Feb 2020 |
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Date | E-pub ahead of print (current) - 16 Mar 2020 |
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Number of pages | 17 |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
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Early online date | 16/03/20 |
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Original language | English |
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In this paper, we investigate the problem of nonparametrically estimating a conditional quantile function with mixed discrete and continuous covariates. A local linear smoothing technique combining both continuous and discrete kernel functions is introduced to estimate the conditional quantile function. We propose using a fully data-driven cross-validation approach to choose the bandwidths, and further derive the asymptotic optimality theory. In addition, we also establish the asymptotic distribution and uniform consistency (with convergence rates) for the local linear conditional quantile estimators with the data-dependent optimal bandwidths. Simulations show that the proposed approach compares well with some existing methods. Finally, an empirical application with the data taken from the IMDb website is presented to analyze the relationship between box office revenues and online rating scores.
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