An implementation of Bayesian Adaptive Regression Splines (BARS) in C with S and R wrappers

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Wallstrom, Garrick ^a,c   Liebner, Jeffrey ^b   Kass, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Free knot splines; Nonparametric regression; Peri stimulus time histogram; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949099044     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v026.i01     Document Type: Article

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