Handbook of Quantile Regression

"""Given the substantial impact that Quantile Regression (QR) has had in the statistical literature in general (and particularly in econometrics), a handbook that acknowledges this impact and explores its breadth is especially welcome. This volume provides an excellent coverage of the developments in, and applications of, QR over the past 40 years. A brief historical ""memoir"" by Bassett and Koenker is followed by 21 chapters contributed by a broad cross-section of scholars, all of whom are experts in QR. These chapters amply illustrate the versatility of QR, and the wide range of variations on its central theme that can be developed to give us a powerful suite of inferential methods…This Handbook is a wonderful resource for graduate students and researchers alike. As has been noted already, the various contributions provide an excellent coverage of the use of QR in the context of a variety of statistical models and types of data. In addition, the book provides illustrations of the application of QR in finance, ecology and environmental sciences, and in genetic and genomic studies. The editors and contributors are to be congratulated on assembling this valuable handbook, which will serve to update and significantly extend our understanding of the richness of QR methods."" —David E. Giles in Statistical Papers, September 2018 ""Quantile regression was introduced in 1757 but not perfected until Koenker and Bassett made it a modern tool for robust analyses in linear models in 1978. This book is testimony to its continuing vitality and growing relevance in the big data era."" —Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago ""Since its invention by Koenker and Bassett, quantile regression has moved from intriguing statistical curiosity to a central empirical tool in the applied econometrician's toolkit. This volume offers a valuable, accessible, and timely summary of the many m"