Non-Linear Regression in R
Last Updated on August 15, 2020
In this post you will discover 4 recipes for non-linear regression in R.
There are many advanced methods you can use for non-linear regression, and these recipes are but a sample of the methods you could use.
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Non-Linear Regression
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Each example in this post uses the longley dataset provided in the datasets package that comes with R. The longley dataset describes 7 economic variables observed from 1947 to 1962 used to predict the number of people employed yearly.
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) is a non-parametric regression method that models multiple nonlinearities in data using hinge functions (functions with a kink in them).