Barrios, Erniel B.; Mina, Christian D. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2013
Using data from the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and 2005 community-based monitoring system for a city, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) is used in identifying household poverty correlates in the Philippines. Models produced by MARS are more parsimonious, yet contain...