Spline Regression Models shows how to use dummy variables to formulate and estimate spline regression models both in situations where the number and location of

Spline Regression Models shows the nuts-and-bolts of using dummy variables to formulate and estimate various spline regression models. For some researchers this

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Statistics is the language of modern empirical social and behavioural science and the varieties of regression form the basis of this language. Statistical and c

This book introduces methods of robust optimization in multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) and Conic MARS in order to handle uncertainty and non-lin