R/bwYJ.R

In BwQuant: Bandwidth Selectors for Local Linear Quantile Regression

bwYJ <- function(x,y,tau){

  if(!is.numeric(tau)|!is.vector(tau)|any(!is.finite(tau))) stop("The parameter 'tau' must be a single number between 0 and 1")
  if(length(tau)!=1) stop("The parameter 'tau' must be a single number between 0 and 1")
  if(!is.numeric(tau)|(tau>=1)|(tau<=0)) stop("The parameter 'tau' must be a single number between 0 and 1")
  
  if (!is.numeric(x)){stop("'x' must be numeric")}
  if (!is.numeric(y)){stop("'y' must be numeric")}
  if(!length(x)>1 | !length(y)>1){stop("'x' and 'y' must be numeric vectors with the same length")}
  if(length(x)!=length(y)){stop("'x' and 'y' must be numeric vectors with the same length")}
  
  iaux=complete.cases(x,y)
  if(sum(!iaux)!=0){ii=which(iaux==FALSE);x=x[-ii];y=y[-ii];warning("Missing values have been removed from 'x' and 'y'")}

	dpill(x,y)*((tau*(1-tau)/(dnorm(qnorm(tau)))^2)^(1/5))
}