Earth: Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)

example2-earth-graph.png example1-earth-graph.png The earth package is an implementation of Jerome Friedman's Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, commonly known as "MARS".

Earth 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

General information on MARS

Wikipedia article (recommended)
Statsoft commercial vendor
Salford commercial vendor

Details

Timing tests
Internal data structures
Internal call graphs
Citing earth

Standalone version (about 3 MBytes) for those who want to call earth from their own software, without R
README for the standalone version


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