Research Article

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

Table 3

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

Sample size SNRMethod

100150Joint QR4.41 (0.03)3.99 (0.02)3.48 (0.02)3.25 (0.02)
Pointwise QR5.40 (0.03)4.84 (0.03)4.26 (0.02)4.21 (0.03)
Mod CM6.00 (0.03)5.71 (0.03)5.42 (0.03)5.39 (0.03)
PQR4.38 (0.05)3.43 (0.03)2.52 (0.02)2.14 (0.02)
10010Joint QR6.93 (0.03)6.40 (0.03)5.89 (0.02)5.76 (0.02)
Pointwise QR7.94 (0.04)7.20 (0.03)6.48 (0.03)6.30 (0.03)
Mod CM8.41 (0.04)8.22 (0.04)8.13 (0.04)8.05 (0.04)
PQR7.76 (0.06)6.57 (0.04)5.47 (0.03)5.08 (0.02)
1005Joint QR8.44 (0.04)7.72 (0.03)7.05 (0.03)6.86 (0.03)
Pointwise QR9.44 (0.05)8.50 (0.04)7.57 (0.03)7.26 (0.03)
Mod CM9.65 (0.05)9.40 (0.05)9.36 (0.05)9.26 (0.05)
PQR9.51 (0.07)8.25 (0.05)6.87 (0.03)6.33 (0.02)
1002Joint QR10.68 (0.05)9.63 (0.04)8.60 (0.03)8.30 (0.03)
Pointwise QR11.55 (0.06)10.29 (0.05)9.00 (0.04)8.54 (0.03)
Mod CM11.27 (0.05)10.80 (0.05)10.43 (0.05)10.40 (0.06)
PQR12.07 (0.08)10.53 (0.06)8.66 (0.04)7.92 (0.03)
1001Joint QR12.23 (0.06)10.91 (0.05)9.54 (0.04)9.11 (0.03)
Pointwise QR12.87 (0.07)11.39 (0.05)9.85 (0.04)9.29 (0.03)
Mod CM12.43 (0.06)11.80 (0.06)11.19 (0.06)11.09 (0.07)
PQR13.70 (0.09)11.91 (0.06)9.70 (0.04)8.84 (0.03)

1000150Joint QR2.87 (0.01)2.42 (0.01)1.89 (0.01)1.65 (0.01)
Pointwise QR3.06 (0.01)2.60 (0.01)2.07 (0.01)1.86 (0.01)
Mod CM3.13 (0.01)2.65 (0.01)2.10 (0.01)1.91 (0.01)
PQR3.10 (0.01)2.47 (0.01)1.78 (0.01)1.48 (0.01)
100010Joint QR6.21 (0.02)5.45 (0.02)4.79 (0.02)4.66 (0.02)
Pointwise QR6.38 (0.02)5.59 (0.02)4.90 (0.02)4.77 (0.02)
Mod CM6.46 (0.02)5.70 (0.02)5.01 (0.02)4.86 (0.02)
PQR6.68 (0.03)5.82 (0.02)4.92 (0.02)4.60 (0.02)
10005Joint QR8.08 (0.03)7.01 (0.02)6.07 (0.02)5.85 (0.02)
Pointwise QR8.27 (0.03)7.15 (0.02)6.16 (0.02)5.94 (0.02)
Mod CM8.30 (0.03)7.26 (0.02)6.31 (0.02)6.08 (0.02)
PQR8.64 (0.03)7.50 (0.03)6.27 (0.02)5.81 (0.02)
10002Joint QR10.76 (0.03)9.21 (0.03)7.76 (0.02)7.38 (0.02)
Pointwise QR10.95 (0.04)9.34 (0.03)7.85 (0.03)7.45 (0.02)
Mod CM10.92 (0.03)9.45 (0.03)8.01 (0.03)7.60 (0.03)
PQR11.38 (0.04)9.79 (0.03)8.03 (0.03)7.34 (0.02)
10001Joint QR12.54 (0.04)10.65 (0.03)8.83 (0.03)8.32 (0.03)
Pointwise QR12.74 (0.04)10.81 (0.04)8.92 (0.03)8.39 (0.03)
Mod CM12.70 (0.04)10.91 (0.04)9.10 (0.03)8.56 (0.03)
PQR13.16 (0.05)11.26 (0.04)9.13 (0.03)8.29 (0.03)