Date: 19-21 October 2017
Location: 58ma Riunione Scientifica Annuale (RSA) della SIE – Società Italiana degli Economisti, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende
This page is for people enrolled in my tutorial on Quantile Regression.
Prerequisites
Please bring your own laptop with a recent version of R and RStudio installed, along with the following packages and their dependencies:
quantreg
Qtools
tidyverse
gamlss
alr3
Participants will be assumed to be familiar with basic statistical tools such as multiple regression, but no knowledge of quantile regression will be assumed.
Reference
Quantile Regression: Theory and Applications
Need help with R?
- Datacamp: Introduction to R course
- Base R cheatsheet
- Data visualization with ggplot2 cheatsheet
- Data transformation with dplyr cheatsheet
Program
Tuesday 26 September
09.00 - 9.15 | Registration and welcome | Conference program |
9.20 - 11.20 | A gentle introduction to quantile regression | Syllabus |
11.20 - 11.30 | Break | |
11.30 - 13.20 | Quantile regression in R: quantreg and Qtools | Slides |
Lab session
Here are the two R script files used for the lab session:
to illustrate the functions available in quantreg
and in Qtools
for quantile regression.