Reexamining the impact of information technology investment on productivity using regression tree and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS)

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 285-299

  Ko, Myung ^a   Osei Bryson, Kweku Muata ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Information technology investment; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Productivity; Regression splines; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849090973     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-008-0036-z     Document Type: Article

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