Research Article

Conditional Analysis for Mixed Covariates, with Application to Feed Intake of Lactating Sows

Table 1

Average MAE (standard error in parentheses) of the predicted -level quantile for the case of having a scalar covariate and a sparsely observed functional covariate. Sample size .

DistributionSNRMethod

Normal150Joint QR3.67 (0.03)3.53 (0.03)3.30 (0.02)3.17 (0.02)
Pointwise QR4.96 (0.03)4.61 (0.03)4.22 (0.02)4.18 (0.02)
Mod CM6.04 (0.03)5.81 (0.03)5.55 (0.03)5.14 (0.03)
PQR3.17 (0.04)2.71 (0.03)2.31 (0.02)2.16 (0.02)
Normal10Joint QR6.32 (0.03)6.00 (0.03)5.76 (0.02)5.73 (0.02)
Pointwise QR7.44 (0.04)6.85 (0.03)6.39 (0.03)6.28 (0.03)
Mod CM8.20 (0.04)8.10 (0.04)8.04 (0.04)8.01 (0.04)
PQR6.82 (0.05)6.11 (0.04)5.34 (0.03)5.09 (0.02)
Normal5Joint QR7.84 (0.04)7.34 (0.03)6.93 (0.03)6.84 (0.03)
Pointwise QR8.91 (0.04)8.12 (0.04)7.45 (0.03)7.26 (0.03)
Mod CM9.34 (0.04)9.23 (0.04)9.14 (0.05)9.06 (0.05)
PQR8.68 (0.06)7.81 (0.05)6.74 (0.03)6.34 (0.02)
Normal2Joint QR10.05 (0.05)9.22 (0.04)8.47 (0.03)8.28 (0.03)
Pointwise QR10.91 (0.06)9.86 (0.04)8.87 (0.04)8.54 (0.03)
Mod CM10.85 (0.05)10.55 (0.05)10.34 (0.06)10.21 (0.06)
PQR11.21 (0.08)10.03 (0.06)8.56 (0.04)7.96 (0.03)
Normal1Joint QR11.50 (0.06)10.41 (0.05)9.40 (0.04)9.11 (0.03)
Pointwise QR12.12 (0.06)10.88 (0.05)9.70 (0.04)9.30 (0.03)
Mod CM11.95 (0.06)11.46 (0.06)11.07 (0.06)11.05 (0.07 )
PQR12.82 (0.08)11.38 (0.06)9.60 (0.04)8.86 (0.03)

Mixture150Joint QR6.92 (0.06)6.23 (0.06)6.16 (0.06)4.81 (0.06)
Pointwise QR8.10 (0.08)6.80 (0.06)6.66 (0.06)5.25 (0.06)
Mod CM9.18 (0.07)8.99 (0.07)8.93 (0.07)7.90 (0.07)
PQR8.43 (0.06)7.18 (0.04)6.22 (0.04)5.48 (0.14)
Mixture10Joint QR9.02 (0.06)7.95 (0.05)7.85 (0.05)6.19 (0.06)
Pointwise QR10.11 (0.07)8.52 (0.05)7.95 (0.05)6.42 (0.06)
Mod CM11.33 (0.07)10.95 (0.07)10.79 (0.07)9.80 (0.08)
PQR10.72 (0.08)8.99 (0.05)7.63 (0.04)5.33 (0.09)
Mixture5Joint QR10.18 (0.06)8.91 (0.05)8.53 (0.05)6.82 (0.05)
Pointwise QR11.18 (0.07)9.38 (0.05)8.58 (0.05)6.98 (0.05)
Mod CM12.19 (0.07)11.75 (0.07)11.52 (0.07)10.47 (0.08)
PQR12.12 (0.09)10.12 (0.06)8.40 (0.04)5.73 (0.07)
Mixture2Joint QR11.93 (0.07)10.26 (0.05)9.46 (0.05)7.61 (0.05)
Pointwise QR12.68 (0.08)10.63 (0.06)9.51 (0.05)7.70 (0.05)
Mod CM13.33 (0.08)12.60 (0.08)12.27 (0.08)11.08 (0.10)
PQR14.16 (0.10)11.72 (0.06)9.55 (0.04)6.41 (0.05)
Mixture1Joint QR13.17 (0.08)11.19 (0.05)10.06 (0.05)8.04 (0.05)
Pointwise QR13.71 (0.09)11.44 (0.06)10.10 (0.05)8.13 (0.05)
Mod CM14.16 (0.08)13.22 (0.08)12.71 (0.09)11.44 (0.11)
PQR15.44 (0.11)12.84 (0.07)10.23 (0.04)6.89 (0.04)