Generalized additive models and inflated type i error rates of smoother significance tests

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 366-374

  Young, Robin L ^a   Weinberg, Janice ^a   Vieira, Verónica ^a   Ozonoff, Al ^a   Webster, Thomas F ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized additive models; Permutation test; Span size selection; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; ION BEAMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; PERMUTATION TESTS; SELECTION TECHNIQUES; SIZE SELECTION; STATISTIC OF INTEREST; TYPE-I ERROR;

TESTING;

EID: 77958074857     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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