Splines as a useful and convenient statistical tool

American Statistician

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 57-62

  Smith, Patricia L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothesis testing; Multiple regression; Ordinary least squares; Piecewise polynomials; Splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889660302     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1979.10482661     Document Type: Article

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