Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 148490, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/148490
Research Article

ERM Scheme for Quantile Regression

Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China

Received 30 November 2012; Accepted 21 February 2013

Academic Editor: Ding-Xuan Zhou

Copyright © 2013 Dao-Hong Xiang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper considers the ERM scheme for quantile regression. We conduct error analysis for this learning algorithm by means of a variance-expectation bound when a noise condition is satisfied for the underlying probability measure. The learning rates are derived by applying concentration techniques involving the -empirical covering numbers.