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“Lockdown WORKS”

Tamino favors LASSO LOESS and piecewise linear models. I favor splines, especially penalized smoothing splines via the R package pspline, using generalized cross validation to set the smoothing parameter. Tamino looks for breaks in the piecewise linear case to check for and test for significant changes. I use the first and higher derivatives of the spline.

Both methods are sound and good.

I don’t know how you might use a random forest regression for this purpose, but I bet there is a way. I doubt it is as good, though.

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  1. Phase plane plots of COVID-19 deaths | hypergeometric

    […] With respect to series describing the COVID-19 pandemic, Tamino has used piecewise linear models. I have mentioned how I prefered penalized (regression) splines. I intended to illustrate something comparable with what Tamino does (see also), but, then, I […]

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