Smoothers and Generalized Additive Models

Vikram Dayal ()
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Vikram Dayal: Institute of Economic Growth, Indian Economic Service Section

Chapter Chapter 15 in Quantitative Economics with R, 2020, pp 305-313 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We consider scatterplot smoothers and generalized additive models that help us go beyond linearity. We apply these to examining the relationship between wages and age and education. We also see how loess can be used to reveal non-linear trends, and decompose time series.

Keywords: Loess; Generalized additive models; gam package; ggplot2 package (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-2035-8_15

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