Strasak, Alexander M.; Umlauf, Nikolaus; Pfeiffer, Ruth M. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 55 (2011) 4, pp. 1540-1551
P(enalized)-splines and fractional polynomials (FPs) have emerged as powerful smoothing techniques with increasing popularity in applied research. Both approaches provide considerable flexibility, but only limited comparative evaluations of the performance and properties of the two methods have...