lqmix: an R package for longitudinal data analysis via linear quantile mixtures

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Main Authors: Alfó, Marco, Marino, Maria Francesca, Ranalli, Maria Giovanna, Salvati, Nicola
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Published: 2023
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author Alfó, Marco
Marino, Maria Francesca
Ranalli, Maria Giovanna
Salvati, Nicola
author_facet Alfó, Marco
Marino, Maria Francesca
Ranalli, Maria Giovanna
Salvati, Nicola
contents The analysis of longitudinal data gives the chance to observe how unit behaviors change over time, but it also poses a series of issues. These have been the focus of an extensive literature in the context of linear and generalized linear regression moving also, in the last ten years or so, to the context of linear quantile regression for continuous responses. In this paper, we present \texttt{lqmix}, a novel \texttt{R} package that assists in estimating a class of linear quantile regression models for longitudinal data, in the presence of time-constant and/or time-varying, unit-specific, random coefficients, with unspecified distribution. Model parameters are estimated in a maximum likelihood framework via an extended EM algorithm, while parameters' standard errors are derived via a block-bootstrap procedure. The analysis of a benchmark dataset is used to give details on the package functions.
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spellingShingle lqmix: an R package for longitudinal data analysis via linear quantile mixtures
Alfó, Marco
Marino, Maria Francesca
Ranalli, Maria Giovanna
Salvati, Nicola
Computation
Methodology
The analysis of longitudinal data gives the chance to observe how unit behaviors change over time, but it also poses a series of issues. These have been the focus of an extensive literature in the context of linear and generalized linear regression moving also, in the last ten years or so, to the context of linear quantile regression for continuous responses. In this paper, we present \texttt{lqmix}, a novel \texttt{R} package that assists in estimating a class of linear quantile regression models for longitudinal data, in the presence of time-constant and/or time-varying, unit-specific, random coefficients, with unspecified distribution. Model parameters are estimated in a maximum likelihood framework via an extended EM algorithm, while parameters' standard errors are derived via a block-bootstrap procedure. The analysis of a benchmark dataset is used to give details on the package functions.
title lqmix: an R package for longitudinal data analysis via linear quantile mixtures
topic Computation
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11363