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MARS 3.0 Feature Matrix

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Enhanced Descriptive Statistics  
 Summary statistics: full, brief, stratified
 Charts and histograms
Improved User Interface  
 New setup activity window
 Ability to control default settings
Model Building  
 Additional fraction for auto validation
 Select/reject predictors directly from variable importance list
 Lag variables and autoregression
Cross Validation  
 User-controlled cross validation bins
 Repeated CV using different random seeds (BATTERY CVR)
Missing Value Analysis  
 Automatically add missing value indicators
 Allow “missing” as a legal discrete level
Model Evaluation & Reporting  
 Monte Carlo testing (BATTERY MCT)
 ROC curves and variance of ROC measure
 Display learn, test, or pooled results
 Gains chart: show perfect model curve
Scoring and Translation  
 New model translation formats: Java and PMML
Automated Model Search: BATTERY  
 BASIS: Varies the number of basis functions
 CV: Varies the number of folds used for cross-validation
 CVR: Repeats cross validation using different random number seeds
 DRAW: Randomly draws the learn sample from the “main” learn sample
 FLIP: Reverses the learn and test samples
 INTER: Varies the number of interactions
 MCT: Monte Carlo shuffling of the target variable
 MINSPAN: Varies the minimum span
 SAMPLE: Progressively reduces the size of the learn sample
 SPEED: Varies the MARS speed parameter through all meaningful values
 TARGET: Models each variable as a target, using all other variables as predictors
 KEEP: Randomly selects a subset of variables as predictors for each model 
 LOVO: Leaves one predictor out of the model each time 
 ONEOFF: Models the target as a function of one predictor at a time 
 SHAVING: Sequentially removes predictors from the model based on their importance