Bayesian MARS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A Bayesian approach to multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) fitting (Friedman, 1991) is proposed. This takes the form of a probability distribution over the space of possible MARS models which is explored using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (Green, 1995). The generated sample of MARS models produced is shown to have good predictive power when averaged and allows easy interpretation of the relative importance of predictors to the overall fit.

published proceedings

  • STATISTICS AND COMPUTING

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Denison, D., Mallick, B. K., & Smith, A.

citation count

  • 63

complete list of authors

  • Denison, DGT||Mallick, BK||Smith, AFM

publication date

  • December 1998