GamboostLSS: An R package for model building and variable selection in the GAMLSS framework

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Hofner, Benjamin ^a   Mayr, Andreas ^a   Schmid, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive models; High dimensional data; Prediction intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992482383     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v074.i01     Document Type: Article

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