Stability analysis of an additive spline model for respiratory health data by using knot removal

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 577-600

  Binder, Harald ^a   Sauerbrei, Willi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

B splines; Generalized additive models; Knot removal; Log linear models; Replication stability; Respiratory health

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350173008     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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