Adaptive Regression for Modeling Nonlinear Relationships

• Main Authors: Knafl, George J. (Author), Ding, Kai (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Biostatistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

This book presents methods for investigating whether relationships are linear or nonlinear and for adaptively fitting appropriate models when they are nonlinear. Data analysts will learn how to incorporate nonlinearity in one or more predictor variables into regression models for different types of...