The "earth" package is now available on CRAN. Earth builds models using Friedman's MARS.
Earth's principal advantages over the existing function mda::mars are that it is much faster and provides plotting and printing methods. The general purpose model plotting function "plotmo" may also be useful to people who are not interested in earth itself. Example: > a <- earth(Volume ~ ., data = trees) > summary(a, digits = 2) Call: earth(formula = Volume ~ ., data = trees) Expression: 23 + 5.7 * pmax(0, Girth - 13) - 2.9 * pmax(0, 13 - Girth) + 0.72 * pmax(0, Height - 76) Number of cases: 31 Selected 4 of 5 terms, and 2 of 2 predictors Number of terms at each degree of interaction: 1 3 (additive model) GCV: 11 RSS: 213 GRSq: 0.96 RSq: 0.97 Regards, Stephen Milborrow _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
