Dimension Reduction and MARS

The multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) is one of the popular estimation methods for nonparametric multivariate regression. However, as MARS is based on marginal splines, to incorporate interactions of covariates, products of the marginal splines must be used, which often leads to an unmanageable number of basis functions when the order of interaction is high and results in low estimation efficiency. In this paper, we improve the performance of MARS by using linear combinations of the covariates which achieve sufficient …

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