Earth: Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)
The earth package is an implementation of Jerome Friedman's Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, commonly known as "MARS".
The earth source code is licensed under the GPL and runs in an R environment, or can be used as a stand-alone C library.
Earth is derived from the mda:mars library written by Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani.
Download
Download link to CRAN
Standalone version for those who
want to call earth from their own software without requiring R.
This standalone version is based on earth version 3.2-5 (Apr 12, 2013).
General information on MARS
Wikipedia article (recommended)
Statsoft commercial vendor
Salford commercial vendor
Internal Details
Timing tests
Internal data structures
Internal call graphs
Citing earth
What people are using earth for
Earth has become quite popular. Here is a small sample of how people are using earth.
Max Kuhn at
Pfizer
is using earth for building predictive models in
computational biology and chemistry.
You may also want to check out Max's
caret
package.
Thorsten Behrens
at the University of Tübingen
(Institute of Geography) is using earth for Pedometrics / Digital Soil Mapping.
Trevor Nell at
Brolink (Pty) Ltd
is using earth to analyse insurance
claim data to determine appropriate premiums.
Kurt Salmela and Ming Shan of
Maritz Research
are using earth for
analyzing marketing research survey data.
Darin Brooks at the
University of British Columbia
and
Kim Forest Management Ltd
is using earth for predicting secondary growth/mid-term timber supply
in the BC forestry sector.
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