A dimension reduction method for model-based clustering via a finite mixture of shifted asymmetric Laplace distributions is introduced. The approach is based on existing work within the Gaussian paradigm and relies on identification of a reduced subspace. This subspace contains linear...

In this paper, we will consider the semiparametric regression model introduced by Duan and Li (1991). The response variable y will be linked to an index x′β (i.e. a linear combination of the explanatory variables x) through an unknown function. In order to estimate the direction of the...

This paper proposes an approach denoted visual conjoint analysis (VCA). Conjoint analysis is commonly used in marketing to understand consumers’ decision criteria, particularly why consumers prefer and select certain products and their variations. Yet, little efforts have been made to provide...

Factor construction methods are widely used to summarize a large panel of variables by means of a relatively small number of representative factors. We propose a novel factor construction procedure that enjoys the properties of robustness to outliers and of sparsity; that is, having relatively...

The daily average price of electricity represents the price of electricity to be delivered over the full next day and serves as a key reference price in the electricity market. It is an aggregate that equals the average of hourly prices for delivery during each of the 24 individual hours. This...

Sliced inverse regression (SIR) is a clever technique for reducing the dimension of the predictor in regression problems, thus avoiding the curse of dimensionality. There exist many contributions on various aspects of the performance of SIR. Up to now, few attention has been paid to the problem...

Accurate forecasting of call arrivals is critical for staffing and scheduling of a telephone call center. We develop methods for interday and dynamic intraday forecasting of incoming call volumes. Our approach is to treat the intraday call volume profiles as a high-dimensional vector time...

Assume we have a dataset, Z say, from the joint distribution of random variables X and Y , and two further, independent datasets, X and Y, from the marginal distributions of X and Y , respectively. We wish to combine X, Y and Z, so as to construct an estimator of the joint density. This problem...

We investigate the possibility of exploiting partial correlation graphs for identifying interpretable latent variables underlying a multivariate time series. It is shown how the collapsibility and separation properties of partial correlation graphs can be used to understand the relation between...

Regression models sometimes contain a linear parametric part and a part obtained by reducing the dimension of a larger set of data. This paper considers properties of estimates of the interpretable parameters of the model, in a general setting in which a potentially unbounded set of other...