Flexible Regression

1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland T. Rust
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Density Estimation ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Asymptotic Properties ◽  
Significance Test ◽  
Nonparametric Density Estimation ◽  
New Method ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Significance Tests ◽  
Standard Regression

Marketing researchers who want to do multiple regression often have data in which some of the standard regression assumptions are violated. Flexible regression is a new method for performing a nonparametric multiple regression while relaxing several of the standard assumptions of regression. In particular the assumptions of linearity, normal errors, and homoskedasticity are relaxed. The approach is based on nonparametric density estimation, which results in a more synergistic and less parametrically constrained method of analysis. Asymptotic properties of estimators are explored and necessary conditions are established for the rejection of significance tests that correspond to the major tests of regression. In addition, a necessary condition for rejection of a significance test is provided to determine whether or not to use flexible regression instead of conventional multiple regression. The advantages of the method are illustrated with several examples.

Asymptotic properties of a certain class of Bush–Mosteller learning models

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 922-941
Author(s):  
Peter Findeisen
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Asymptotic Properties ◽  
Response Sequence ◽  
Positive Probability ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Random Sequences ◽  
Learning Experiment ◽  
Sufficient And Necessary Conditions

One general and three specialized models of the Bush–Mosteller type are presented to describe the kind of learning experiment where the response of the learner is always reinforced. Inhomogeneity is admitted. The random sequences of response probabilities and of responses associated with the different models are considered. Information about the existence and the distribution of asymptotic response probabilities is provided. The stress is on sufficient and necessary conditions for convergence (a.s. or with positive probability) of the response sequence, which is what ‘learning' means.

Certain Fourier Transforms of Distributions: II

1954 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 186-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Lukacs ◽  
Otto Szász
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Function ◽  
Fourier Transforms ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Laplace Transforms ◽  
Characteristic Functions ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Multiple Roots ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Class Of Functions

In an earlier paper (1), published in this journal, a necessary condition was given which the reciprocal of a polynomial without multiple roots must satisfy in order to be a characteristic function. This condition is, however, valid for a wider class of functions since it can be shown (2, theorem 2 and corollary to theorem 3) that it holds for all analytic characteristic functions. The proof given in (1) is elementary and has some methodological interest since it avoids the use of theorems on singularities of Laplace transforms. Moreover the method used in (1) yields some additional necessary conditions which were not given in (1) and which do not seem to follow easily from the properties of analytic characteristic functions.

Eccentricity in irregular multistory buildings

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. W.-T. Cheung ◽  
W. K. Tso
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Building Code ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Practical Procedure ◽  
Multistory Buildings ◽  
Plane Frame ◽  
Code Procedure ◽  
Code Provisions

To evaluate the seismic torsional effect on multistory buildings, the concept of eccentricity is extended from single-story buildings to multistory buildings by defining the locations of the centers of rigidity at each floor. A practical procedure to locate the centers of rigidity and hence floor eccentricity is introduced. This procedure depends on the use of plane frame computer programs only and is suitable for use in design offices. The seismic torsional provisions in the National Building Code of Canada 1985 (NBCC 1985) explicitly emphasize that the code provisions apply to buildings where the centres of rigidity lie on a vertical axis only. By means of examples, it verifies the claim of NBCC 1985. Also, it shows that, for buildings with centers of rigidity scattered from a vertical axis, the code procedure may or may not apply. Therefore, one should interpret the condition of centers of rigidity located along a vertical axis to be a sufficient, but not a necessary, condition for the NBCC 85 code provisions to be applicable. Until the necessary conditions are known, dynamic analysis remains the most reliable method to assign the torsional effects to various portions of the building. Key words: building code, center of rigidity, dynamic analysis, eccentricity, irregular, multistory, seismic, torsion.

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