Conditional quantiles with varying Gaussians

  • Authors:
  • Dao-Hong Xiang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China 321004

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Computational Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we study conditional quantile regression by learning algorithms generated from Tikhonov regularization schemes associated with pinball loss and varying Gaussian kernels. Our main goal is to provide convergence rates for the algorithm and illustrate differences between the conditional quantile regression and the least square regression. Applying varying Gaussian kernels improves the approximation ability of the algorithm. Bounds for the sample error are achieved by using a projection operator, a variance-expectation bound derived from a condition on conditional distributions and a tight bound for the covering numbers involving the Gaussian kernels.