On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Naxerova, Kamila wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have a series of data points which I want to approximate with exactly two
> linear functions. I would like to choose the intervals so that the total
> deviation from my fitted lines is minimal. How do I best do this?
>From the information you give it seems that you want to partition a model
like
lm(y ~ x)
along a certain ordering of the observations. Without any further
restrictions you can do that with the function breakpoints() in package
"strucchange". If there are continuity restrictions or something like
that, you want to look at the "segmented" package.
hth,
Z
> Thanks!
> Kamila
>
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