Wang, You-Gan; Shao, Quanxi; Zhu, Min - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 53 (2009) 10, pp. 3696-3705
We consider quantile regression models and investigate the induced smoothing method for obtaining the covariance matrix of the regression parameter estimates. We show that the difference between the smoothed and unsmoothed estimating functions in quantile regression is negligible. The detailed...