Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, Vol. 65, No. 2/3, Analysis of Growth Trajectories (2014), pp. 129-138 (10 pages) Background: There is increasing emphasis in medical research on modelling growth ...

A flexible nonparametric regression model is considered in which the response depends linearly on some covariates, with regression coefficients as additive functions of other covariates. Polynomial ...

SPLINE is a transformation. It takes a variable as input and produces a transformed variable as output. Internally, with SPLINE, a B-spline basis is used to find the transformation, which is a linear ...