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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: Estimation of spline join points? References, suggestions?
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 14:25:33 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Keywords: Splines, join points, Maximum-Likelihood
-
- gyan@unixg.ubc.ca (Gyan P. Sinha) writes:
-
- >(1) OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY: ML estimation will require some type of
- >non-gradient technique (?), so how do I get the asymtotic t-stats and
- >such?
-
- @article{TishlerZang,
- author = {Asher Tishler and Isreal Zang},
- title = {A Maximum Likelihood Method for Piecewise Regression Models with a Continuous Dependent Variable},
- journal = AS,
- volume = 30,
- number = 2,
- pages = {116-124},
- year = 1981,
- annote = {MLE piecewise regression. Approximates max operator in LF. Speed.}
- }
-
- (This might come with source code).
-
- @article{TishlerZang81,
- author = {Asher Tishler and Israel Zang},
- title = {A new maximum likelihood algorithm for piecewise regression},
- journal = JASA,
- volume = 76,
- number = 376,
- pages = {980-987},
- month = {December},
- year = 1981,
- annote = {regression, splines, piecewise regression, switching regressions}
- }
-
- If you write some interesting source, could you post on the net?
-
- >(2) MEANING OF T-STATS: If I am estimating the join point from the
- >data itself, does that require some special tweaking on the t-ratios
- >to get legitimate tests of significance?
-
- Nothing comes to mind.
-
- >(4) ALTERNATIVES: Can anyone suggest alternatives that would allow for
- >similar effects, other than introducing a polynomial in DIFF, of which
- >I'm already aware of.
-
- A alternative to polynomials and splines is chebyshev expansion.
- --
- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
-