Since Quetelet's work in the 19th century social science has iconi fied "the average man", that hypothetical man without qualities who is comfortable with his head in the oven, and his feet in a bucket of ice. Conventional statistical methods, since Quetelet, have sought to estimate the effects...

Why and When Should Quantile Regression Be Used?- A Case of Study: Modelling Energy Markets by the Means of Quantile Regression -- Quantile Regression: A Methodological Overview -- Cross-Sectional Quantile Regression -- Time Series Quantile Regression -- Goodness of Fit in Quantile Regression...

Die Bankeffizienzliteratur bedient sich traditionell hochentwickelter ökonometrischer Methoden. Zumeist ist es das Ziel, mikroökonomisch fundierte Kostenfunktionen für den Bankensektor auf der Basis von Bilanzdaten zu schätzen. Diese Funktionen dienen dann als Bezugsgröße, an denen sich...

In vielen Anwendungen ist es notwendig, die stochastische Schwankungen der maximalen Abweichungen der nichtparametrischen Schätzer von Quantil zu wissen, zB um die verschiedene parametrische Modelle zu überprüfen. Einheitliche Konfidenzbänder sind daher für nichtparametrische Quantil...

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

This article is concerned with the development of wage inequality in the USA and Germany. Base data for the USA is the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, for Germany the Socio-Economic Panel. By reason of divergent economic development in East and West-Germany, both parts are examined separately....

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...

In 1978, Roger Koenker and Gilbert Bassett, Jr. introduced a new econometric estimation method and entitled it quantile regression. Since then, many subsequent authors have elaborated and extended the underlying theoretical framework. Other contributions have successfully applied the procedure...