On concurvity in nonlinear and nonparametric regression models

When data are affected by multicollinearity in the linear regression framework, then concurvity will be present in fitting a generalized additive model (GAM). The term concurvity describes nonlinear dependencies among the predictor variables. As collinearity results in inflated variance of the estim...

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Main Authors: Sonia Amodio, Massimo Aria, Antonio D’Ambrosio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2014-12-01
Series:Statistica
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Online Access:http://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/4599