Estimating Conditional Proportion Curves by Regression Residuals
Published in: Statistics in Medicine, v. 29, no. 13, June 15, 2010, p. 1443-1454
Posted on RAND.org on June 01, 2010
Researchers often derive a categorical outcome from an observed continuous measurement y. For example, human obesity status can be defined by the body mass index. They proceed to estimate the conditional proportion curve p(x) = P(y?c(x)
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