Abstract

An automatic procedure that uses linear splines and their tensor products is proposed for tting a regression model to data involving a polychotomous response variable and one or more predictors. The tted model can be used for multiple classi cation. The automatic tting procedure involves maximum likelihood estimation, stepwise addition, stepwise deletion, and model selection by AIC, cross-validation or an independent test set. A modi ed version of the algorithm has been constructed that is applicable to large data sets, and it is illustrated using a phoneme recognition data set with 250,000 cases, 45 classes and 63 predictors.

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