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Economic and socio-demographic determinants of child nutritional status in Egypt : a comprehensive analysis using quantile regression approach
Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy; Rashad, Ahmed - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447133
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Valid post-selection inference in high-dimensional approximately sparse quantile regression models
Belloni, Alexandre; Chernozhukov, Victor; Kato, Kengo - 2014
This work proposes new inference methods for the estimation of a regression coefficient of interest in quantile regression models. We consider high-dimensional models where the number of regressors potentially exceeds the sample size but a subset of them suffice to construct a reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462848
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006
points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the … of children stunted is explained by changes in the distributions of covariates and 35% is explained by change in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350368
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Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: Child malnutrition in Guatemala
Sweeney, Stuart; Davenport, Frank; Grace, Kathryn - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 2, pp. 164-177
Chronic child undernutrition is a persistent problem in developing countries and has been the focus of hundreds of … cross-sectional studies undernutrition is measured as child stunting and the goal is to assess differences in prevalence …. Guatemala is used as the country focus for the study. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010871516
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - In: Journal of development economics 88 (2009) 1, pp. 45-58
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811514
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Determinants of the socioeconomic and spatial pattern of undernutrition by sex in India : a geoadditive semi-parametric regression approach
Belitz, Christiane; Hübner, Judith; Klasen, Stephan; … - In: Statistical modelling and regression structures : …, (pp. 155-179). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003964483
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Identifying risk factors for severe childhood malnutrition by boosting additive quantile regression
Fenske, Nora; Kneib, Thomas; Hothorn, Torsten - In: Journal of the American Statistical Association : JASA 106 (2011) 494, pp. 494-510
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267757
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Structured additive quantile regression with applications to modelling undernutrition and obesity of children
Fenske, Nora - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702598
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Does child undernutrition persist despite poverty reduction in developing countries? : quantile regression results
Block, Steven; Masters, William Alan; Bhagowalia, Priya - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 48 (2012) 12, pp. 1699-1715
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711443
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Effects of nutrition promotion on child growth in El Alto, Bolivia : results from a geographical discontinuity design
Gertner, Gaston; Johannsen, Julia; Martinez, Sebastian - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 17 (2016) 1, pp. 131-165
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688421