Sí, esa es la interpretación. Una forma en la que puede ver esto es prediciendo la mediana para diferentes valores de su estandarizado, cada 1 unidad (en este caso, desviación estándar) aparte. Luego, puede ver cuánto difieren estas medianas predichas y verá que ese es exactamente el mismo número que su coeficiente de regresión cuantil estandarizado. Aquí hay un ejemplo:
. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 Automobile Data)
.
. // standardize variables
. sum price if !missing(price,weight)
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
price | 74 6165.257 2949.496 3291 15906
. gen double z_price = ( price - r(mean) ) / r(sd)
.
. sum weight if !missing(price,weight)
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
weight | 74 3019.459 777.1936 1760 4840
. gen double z_weight = ( weight - r(mean) ) / r(sd)
.
. // estimate the quartile regression
. qreg z_price z_weight
Iteration 1: WLS sum of weighted deviations = 47.263794
Iteration 1: sum of abs. weighted deviations = 54.018868
Iteration 2: sum of abs. weighted deviations = 43.851751
Median regression Number of obs = 74
Raw sum of deviations 48.21332 (about -.41744651)
Min sum of deviations 43.85175 Pseudo R2 = 0.0905
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z_price | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
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z_weight | .2552875 .1368752 1.87 0.066 -.0175682 .5281432
_cons | -.3415908 .1359472 -2.51 0.014 -.6125966 -.070585
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.
. // predict the predicted median for z_weight
. // is -2, -1, 0, 1, 2
. drop _all
. set obs 5
obs was 0, now 5
. gen z_weight = _n - 3
. predict med
(option xb assumed; fitted values)
. list
+----------------------+
| z_weight med |
|----------------------|
1. | -2 -.8521658 |
2. | -1 -.5968783 |
3. | 0 -.3415908 |
4. | 1 -.0863033 |
5. | 2 .1689841 |
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.
. // compute how much the predicted median
. // differs between cars 1 standard deviation
. // weight apart
. gen diff = med - med[_n - 1]
(1 missing value generated)
. list
+---------------------------------+
| z_weight med diff |
|---------------------------------|
1. | -2 -.8521658 . |
2. | -1 -.5968783 .2552875 |
3. | 0 -.3415908 .2552875 |
4. | 1 -.0863033 .2552875 |
5. | 2 .1689841 .2552875 |
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