Publication Type

Working Paper

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2002

Abstract

In this paper we propose an analytically corrected plug-in method for constructing confidence intervals of the conditional quantiles of a response variable with data transformation. The method can be applied to (i) a general conditional regression quantile, (ii) a general monotonic transformation, and (iii) a transformation model with heteroscedastic errors. Our results extend those in Yang (2002a), in which the median of a response variable under the Box-Cox transformation with homoscedastic errors was considered. A Monte Carlo experiment is conducted to compare the performance of the corrected plug-in method, the plug-in method and the delta method. The corrected plug-in method provides superior results over the other two methods.

Keywords

Analytical calibration, Box-Cox transformation, Heteroscedasticity, Plug-in quantile limits, Regression quantile

Discipline

Econometrics

Research Areas

Econometrics

Volume

22-2002

First Page

1

Last Page

35

Publisher

SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 22-2002

City or Country

Singapore

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Comments

Published in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul., 2007), pp. 356-376, https://doi.org/10.1198/073500106000000684

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