摘要
Recentexperiencehasshownthatinterior-pointmethodsusingalogbarrierapproacharefarsuperiortoclassicalsimplexmethodsforcomputingsolutionstolargeparametricquantileregressionproblems.Inmanylargeempiricalapplications,thedesignmatrixhasaverysparsestructure.Atypicalexampleistheclassicalfixed-effectmodelforpaneldatawheretheparametricdimensionofthemodelcanbequitelarge,butthenumberofnon-zeroelementsisquitesmall.AdoptingrecentdevelopmentsinsparselinearalgebraweintroduceamodifiedversionoftheFrisch-NewtonalgorithmforquantileregressiondescribedinPortnoyandKoenker[28].Thenewalgorithmsubstantiallyreducesthestorage(memory)requirementsandincreasescomputationalspeed.Themodifiedalgorithmalsofacilitatesthedevelopmentofnonparametricquantileregressionmethods.Thepseudodesignmatricesemployedinnonparametricquantileregressionsmoothingareinherentlysparseinboththefidelityandroughnesspenaltycomponents.ExploitingthesparsestructureoftheseproblemsopensupawholerangeofnewpossibilitiesformultivariatesmoothingonlargedatasetsviaANOVA-typedecompositionandpartiallinearmodels.
出版日期
2005年02月12日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
