MARS Modeling for Ordinal Categorical Response Data: A Case Study

  • Published : 2000.12.01

Abstract

A case study of modeling ordinal categorical response data with the MARS method is done. The study is to analyze the effect of some personal characteristics and socioeconomic status on the teenage marijuana use. The MARS method gave a new insight into the data set.

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