Research Article

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

Table 2

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 .

Distribution SNRMethod

Normal150Joint QR1.68 (0.01)1.65 (0.01)1.62 (0.01)1.60 (0.01)
Pointwise QR1.94 (0.01)1.92 (0.01)1.88 (0.01)1.81 (0.01)
Mod CM1.93 (0.01)1.88 (0.01)1.87 (0.01)1.87 (0.01)
PQR1.72 (0.01)1.61 (0.01)1.51 (0.01)1.48 (0.01)
Normal10Joint QR5.45 (0.02)4.97 (0.02)4.66 (0.02)4.65 (0.02)
Pointwise QR5.64 (0.02)5.13 (0.02)4.78 (0.02)4.75 (0.02)
Mod CM5.69 (0.02)5.21 (0.02)4.87 (0.02)4.85 (0.02)
PQR5.85 (0.02)5.37 (0.02)4.81 (0.02)4.60 (0.02)
Normal5Joint QR7.34 (0.03)6.54 (0.02)5.94 (0.02)5.85 (0.02)
Pointwise QR7.53 (0.03)6.69 (0.02)6.04 (0.02)5.94 (0.02)
Mod CM7.53 (0.03)6.77 (0.02)6.18 (0.02)6.06 (0.02)
PQR7.84 (0.03)7.05 (0.02)6.16 (0.02)5.81 (0.02)
Normal2Joint QR9.97 (0.03)8.70 (0.03)7.62 (0.02)7.38 (0.02)
Pointwise QR10.15 (0.03)8.85 (0.03)7.71 (0.02)7.45 (0.02)
Mod CM10.12 (0.03)8.93 (0.03)7.87 (0.03)7.60 (0.03)
PQR10.55 (0.04)9.34 (0.03)7.91 (0.03)7.34 (0.02)
Normal1Joint QR11.69 (0.04)10.10 (0.03)8.68 (0.03)8.32 (0.03)
Pointwise QR11.88 (0.04)10.25 (0.04)8.77 (0.03)8.39 (0.03)
Mod CM11.85 (0.04)10.37 (0.04)8.96 (0.03)8.57 (0.03)
PQR12.29 (0.04)10.77 (0.04)9.02 (0.03)8.29 (0.03)

Mixture150Joint QR4.56 (0.02)4.44 (0.02)4.33 (0.03)3.68 (0.03)
Pointwise QR4.34 (0.03)4.24 (0.02)4.20 (0.03)3.66 (0.04)
Mod CM4.68 (0.03)4.59 (0.02)4.38 (0.03)4.01 (0.03)
PQR7.84 (0.03)6.45 (0.02)5.29 (0.02)3.19 (0.01)
Mixture10Joint QR7.56 (0.03)6.79 (0.02)6.14 (0.03)5.02 (0.03)
Pointwise QR7.49 (0.03)6.61 (0.02)5.88 (0.03)5.02 (0.03)
Mod CM7.67 (0.04)6.97 (0.03)6.17 (0.03)5.52 (0.04)
PQR10.11 (0.04)8.29 (0.03)6.71 (0.02)3.62 (0.02)
Mixture5Joint QR9.20 (0.04)7.13 (0.03)6.94 (0.03)5.6 (0.03)
Pointwise QR9.17 (0.04)7.01 (0.03)6.71 (0.03)5.58 (0.03)
Mod CM9.32 (0.04)7.37 (0.03)7.08 (0.03)6.18 (0.04)
PQR11.46 (0.04)9.36 (0.03)7.49 (0.03)4.32 (0.02)
Mixture2Joint QR11.57 (0.05)9.02 (0.03)8.05 (0.03)6.35 (0.03)
Pointwise QR11.58 (0.05)8.98 (0.04)7.90 (0.03)6.31 (0.03)
Mod CM11.69 (0.05)9.38 (0.04)8.38 (0.04)7.01 (0.04)
PQR13.49 (0.05)10.95 (0.04)8.61 (0.03)5.32 (0.02)
Mixture1Joint QR13.18 (0.05)10.31 (0.04)8.79 (0.04)6.79 (0.03)
Pointwise QR13.21 (0.05)10.28 (0.04)8.69 (0.04)6.73 (0.03)
Mod CM13.26 (0.05)10.67 (0.04)9.21 (0.04)7.47 (0.04)
PQR14.93 (0.06)12.05 (0.04)9.35 (0.04)5.96 (0.02)