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Geometric ergodicity of the Gibbs sampler for Bayesian quantile regression

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  • Khare, Kshitij
  • Hobert, James P.

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Consider the quantile regression model Y=Xβ+σϵ where the components of ϵ are i.i.d. errors from the asymmetric Laplace distribution with rth quantile equal to 0, where r∈(0,1) is fixed. Kozumi and Kobayashi (2011) [9] introduced a Gibbs sampler that can be used to explore the intractable posterior density that results when the quantile regression likelihood is combined with the usual normal/inverse gamma prior for (β,σ). In this paper, the Markov chain underlying Kozumi and Kobayashi’s (2011) [9] algorithm is shown to converge at a geometric rate. No assumptions are made about the dimension of X, so the result still holds in the “large p, small n” case.

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  • Khare, Kshitij & Hobert, James P., 2012. "Geometric ergodicity of the Gibbs sampler for Bayesian quantile regression," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 108-116.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jmvana:v:112:y:2012:i:c:p:108-116
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2012.05.004
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