Estimating Conditional Proportion Curves by Regression Residuals

Bing Han, Nelson Lim

ResearchPosted on rand.org Jun 1, 2010Published in: Statistics in Medicine, v. 29, no. 13, June 15, 2010, p. 1443-1454

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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  • Copyright: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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  • Year: 2010
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: EP-50236

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