segmented: An R package to Fit Regression Models with Broken-Line Relationships
- Authors: MUGGEO VM
- Publication year: 2008
- Type: Articolo in rivista (Articolo in rivista)
- Key words: segmented regression; break point; changepoint; R
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/38429
Abstract
Segmented or broken-line models are regression models where the relationships between the response and one or more explanatory variables are piecewise linear, namely represented by two or more straight lines connected at unknown values: these values are usually referred as breakpoints, changepoints or even joinpoints.