Bayesian quantile regression for longitudinal data models
- 1 November 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
- Vol. 82 (11), 1635-1649
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2011.590488
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss a fully Bayesian quantile inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for longitudinal data models with random effects. Under the assumption of error term subject to asymmetric Laplace distribution, we establish a hierarchical Bayesian model and obtain the posterior distribution of unknown parameters at τ-th level. We overcome the current computational limitations using two approaches. One is the general MCMC technique with Metropolis–Hastings algorithm and another is the Gibbs sampling from the full conditional distribution. These two methods outperform the traditional frequentist methods under a wide array of simulated data models and are flexible enough to easily accommodate changes in the number of random effects and in their assumed distribution. We apply the Gibbs sampling method to analyse a mouse growth data and some different conclusions from those in the literatures are obtained.Keywords
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