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What is Linear Spline

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Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
A piecewise-linear function that is connected at so-called knots. Splines are used in regression specifications to relax the assumption that a regressor affects the conditional mean of the dependent variable only in a strict linear fashion.
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An Update on Mobile Broadband Availability in the United States
Thomas V. Church (Hoover Institution, USA) and James E. Prieger (Pepperdine University, USA)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch107
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