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Re: GAM with a multinomial response

To: "'Nancy Friday'" <Nancy.Friday@noaa.gov>, "S-News Mailing List" <s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: GAM with a multinomial response
From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw@merck.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:36:50 -0400
One possibility that I can think of is Friedman's MART.  There's no
implementation in Splus AFAIK.  However, Greg Ridgeway has an R package
called "gbm" that has similar functionality.  If you can use R, you may want
to give that a try.

HTH,
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Friday [mailto:Nancy.Friday@noaa.gov] 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to model multinomial data (both nominal and
> ordinal) as a function of multinomial and continuous 
> explanatory variables in a generalized additive framework.  
> Is there an easy way to do this in splus?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nancy
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