Abstract
In this article we explore the usefulness of a quantile regression formulation of reanalyzing a large experimental study that monitored age-specific mortality in a sample of roughly 1.2 million Mediterranean fruit flies. The quantile regression approach appears useful in refining several of the conclusions drawn from the original study including the apparent decline in mortality rates at advanced ages, and the gender crossover effect in survival functions for medflies.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 458-468 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Statistical Association |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue number | 454 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2001 |
Keywords
- Experimental demography
- Lehmann treatment effect
- Mortality rates
- Quantile regression
- Survival analysis
- Transformation model
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty