International Fellows

Richard Spady

Johns Hopkins

Selected Publications

Gaussian transforms modeling and the estimation of distributional regression functions

Conditional distribution functions are important statistical objects for the analysis of a wide class of problems […]

Richard Spady, Sami Stouli
16 November 2020 | CWP53/20
Dual regression

We propose dual regression as an alternative to the quantile regression process for the global estimation […]

Richard Spady, Sami Stouli
16 January 2019 | CWP01/19

Previous version

Dual regression
Richard Spady, Sami Stouli
13 January 2016 | CWP04/16
Simultaneous mean-variance regression

We propose simultaneous mean-variance regression for the linear estimation and approximation of conditional mean functions. In […]

Richard Spady, Sami Stouli
5 April 2018 | CWP25/18
Dual regression

We propose an alternative (‘dual regression’) to the quantile regression process for the global estimation of […]

Richard Spady, Sami Stouli
13 January 2016 | CWP04/16

Latest version

Dual regression
Richard Spady, Sami Stouli
16 January 2019 | CWP01/19
Dual Regression

We propose an alternative (“dual regression”) to the quantile regression process for the global estimation of […]

Sami Stouli, Richard Spady
25 October 2012 |
Semiparametric methods for the measurement of latent attitudes and the estimation of their behavioural consequences

We model attitudes as latent variables that induce stochastic dominance relations in (item) responses. Observable characteristics […]

Richard Spady
22 November 2007 | CWP26/07
Identification and estimation of latent attitudes and their behavioral implications

This paper (i) formalizes conditions under which a population distribution of categorical responses to attitudinal questions […]

Richard Spady
23 June 2006 | CWP12/06
The issue context of modern American politics: semiparametric identification of latent factors from Discrete data

A new methodology that estimates attitudes semiparametrically and estimates actions nonparametrically, as a function of the […]

Byron Shafer, Richard Spady
15 August 2002 | CWP16/02