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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Rational functions: a linear model?
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- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:30:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct11.192921.22075@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ayman@eecs.umich.edu (Ayman I. Kayssi) writes:
- >hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:
- >>In article <1992Oct11.153538.12821@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ayman@eecs.umich.edu (Ayman I. Kayssi) writes:
- >>>y = a0 + a1*x + ... + am*x^m + b1*(-y)*x + b2*(-y)*x^2 + ... + bn*(-y)*x^n
-
- >>If you are trying a regression on your transformed equation, the estimates
- >>will not even be consistent because of dependent variables on the right side.
-
-
- >TableCurve (from Jandel) lists the following form under *linear* equations:
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- > a + c x + e x^2 + ...
- >y = ---------------------
- > 1 + b x + d x^2 + ...
-
- >How do they (non-iteratively) calculate the parameters?
-
- I am not familiar with the work; I do not even know if data is being fitted,
- or a theoretical function. A standard numerical analysis situation is the
- fitting of approximations of fixed type; as infinite series, the problem
- is hopelessly unidentified. As I have stated before, there are quite
- substantial numerical problems, although these may not be too crucial for
- the degree of fit. If the fit is to observational data, it may even be a
- good idea to use ridge regression or some other Bayesian, or approximate
- Bayesian, approacth.
-
- But I cannot see any good reason why it is important, or even desirable, to
- calculate non-iteratively, unless this is to be a "field" situation, with
- thousands or millions of cases to be computed.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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