Fused Adaptive Lasso for Spatial and Temporal Quantile Function Estimation
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ArticleKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionStatistics Program
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2016-02-22Online Publication Date
2016-02-22Print Publication Date
2016-01-02Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621492
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Quantile functions are important in characterizing the entire probability distribution of a random variable, especially when the tail of a skewed distribution is of interest. This article introduces new quantile function estimators for spatial and temporal data with a fused adaptive Lasso penalty to accommodate the dependence in space and time. This method penalizes the difference among neighboring quantiles, hence it is desirable for applications with features ordered in time or space without replicated observations. The theoretical properties are investigated and the performances of the proposed methods are evaluated by simulations. The proposed method is applied to particulate matter (PM) data from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model to characterize the upper quantiles, which are crucial for studying spatial association between PM concentrations and adverse human health effects. © 2016 American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality.Citation
Sun Y, Wang HJ, Fuentes M (2016) Fused Adaptive Lasso for Spatial and Temporal Quantile Function Estimation. Technometrics 58: 127–137. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00401706.2015.1017115.Sponsors
The authors thank the valuable suggestions from the associate editor and referees for contributing to the noticeable improvement of the article. This research was partially supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) grants DMS-1106862, 1106974, and 1107046, the NSF CAREER award DMS-1149355, and the STATMOS research network on Statistical Methods in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
Technometricsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/00401706.2015.1017115