When are two pieces better than one: Fitting and testing OLS and RMA regressions

Environmetrics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 306-316

  Friedman, Jane ^a   Bohonak, Andrew J ^b   Levine, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Model selection; Reduced major axis regression; Two phase linear models; Two piece regression

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84880779154     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2213     Document Type: Article

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