Fitting the cusp catastrophe in R: A cusp package primer

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1-27

  Grasman, Raoul P P P ^a   van der Maas, Han L J ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Cusp; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450171126     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v032.i08     Document Type: Article

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