Non-crossing convex quantile regression
: Dai Sheng, Kuosmanen Timo, Zhou Xun
Publisher: Elsevier
: 2023
: Economics Letters
: 233
: 1873-7374
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111396
: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111396
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/181304648
Quantile crossing is a common phenomenon in shape constrained nonparametric quantile regression. A direct approach to address this problem is to impose non-crossing constraints to convex quantile regression. However, the non-crossing constraints may violate an intrinsic quantile property. This paper proposes a penalized convex quantile regression approach that can circumvent quantile crossing while maintaining the quantile property. A Monte Carlo study demonstrates the superiority of the proposed penalized approach in addressing the quantile crossing problem.