Model selection in spline nonparametric regression

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 119-139

  Wood, Sally ^a   Kohn, Robert ^a   Shively, Tom ^a   Jiang, Wenxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Bayesian information criterion; Binary regression; Gibbs sampler; Thin plate splines; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036427356     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00328     Document Type: Article

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