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ACE and AVAS for Selecting Multiple Regression Transformations

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Two nonparametric methods for multiple regression transform selection are provided. The first, Alternating Conditional Expectations (ACE), is an algorithm to find the fixed point of maximal correlation, i.e. it finds a set of transformed response variables that maximizes R^2 using smoothing functions see Breiman, L., and J.H. Friedman. 1985. "Estimating Optimal Transformations for Multiple Regression and Correlation". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 80:580-598. <[doi:10.1080/01621459.1985.10478157>]. Also included is the Additivity Variance Stabilization (AVAS) method which works better than ACE when correlation is low see Tibshirani, R. 1986. "Estimating Transformations for Regression via Additivity and Variance Stabilization". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83:394-405. <[doi:10.1080/01621459.1988.10478610>]. A good introduction to these two methods is in chapter 16 of Frank Harrell's "Regression Modeling Strategies" in the Springer Series in Statistics. A permutation independence test is included from Holzmann, H., Klar, B. 2025. "Lancaster correlation - a new dependence measure linked to maximum correlation". Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 52(1):145-169 <[doi:10.1111/sjos.12733>].


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