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- Title
Fitting censored quantile regression by variable neighborhood search.
- Authors
Rajab, Rima; Dražić, Milan; Mladenović, Nenad; Mladenović, Pavle; Yu, Keming
- Abstract
Quantile regression is an increasingly important topic in statistical analysis. However, fitting censored quantile regression is hard to solve numerically because the objective function to be minimized is not convex nor concave in regressors. Performance of standard methods is not satisfactory, particularly if a high degree of censoring is present. The usual approach is to simplify (linearize) estimator function, and to show theoretically that such approximation converges to optimal values. In this paper, we suggest a new approach, to solve optimization problem (nonlinear, nonconvex, and nondifferentiable) directly. Our method is based on variable neighborhood search approach, a recent successful technique for solving global optimization problems. The presented results indicate that our method can improve quality of censored quantizing regressors estimator considerably.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICAL optimization; QUANTILE regression; METAHEURISTIC algorithms; CENSORING (Statistics); SEARCH algorithms; MATHEMATICAL models
- Publication
Journal of Global Optimization, 2015, Vol 63, Issue 3, p481
- ISSN
0925-5001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10898-015-0311-6