An Implementation of Bayesian Adaptive Regression Splines (BARS) in C with S and R Wrappers

BARS (DiMatteo, Genovese, and Kass 2001) uses the powerful reversible-jump MCMC engine to perform spline-based generalized nonparametric regression. It has been shown to work well in terms of having small mean-squared error in many examples (smaller than known competitors), as well as producing visu...

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Main Author: Garrick Wallstrom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2007-02-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v26/i01/paper