Profiling poverty with multivariate adaptive regression splines

• Main Authors: Mina, Christian D., Barrios, Erniel B.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Poverty—Philippines; Community-Based Research
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8345
• Institution: De La Salle University

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 theor...