Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric Regression (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Fox, John

ISBN 10: 0761921893 / ISBN 13: 9780761921899

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 2000

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Title: Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric ...

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Paperback

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Synopsis:

This book builds on John Fox's previous volume in the Q.A.S.S. Series, Non Parametric Simple Regression. In this book, the reader learns how to estimate and plot smooth functions when there are multiple independent variables.

Synopsis:

While regression analysis traces the dependence of the distribution of a response variable to see if it bears a particular (linear) relationship to one or more of the predictors, nonparametric regression analysis makes minimal assumptions about the form of relationship between the average response and the predictors. This makes nonparametric regression a more useful technique for analyzing data in which there are several predictors that may combine additively to influence the response. (An example could be something like birth order//gender//and temperament on achievement motivation). Unfortunately, researchers have not had accessible information on nonparametric regression analysis--until now. Beginning with presentation of nonparametric regression based on dividing the data into bins and averaging the response values in each bin, Fox introduces readers to the techniques of kernel estimation, additive nonparametric regression, and the ways nonparametric regression can be employed to select transformations of the data preceding a linear least-squares fit. The book concludes with ways nonparametric regression can be generalized to logit, probit, and Poisson regression.