Generalized monotonic regression based on B-splines with an application to air pollution data

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 654-673

  Leitenstorfer, Florian ^a   Tutz, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution data; Generalized additive models; Likelihood based boosting; Monotonic regression

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BRAZIL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BRAZIL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34648835120     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxl036     Document Type: Article

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