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GOFAI from 1991! Wasn't AI back then though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_adaptive_regression_spline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivaria

• lukeinator42 2y ago
  I'm also shocked at how readable this wikipedia article is relative to most articles about statistical methods.
  • IshKebab 2y ago
    Wow you're right. I mean it's all maths articles on Wikipedia, not just statistics. I think there are two causes of Wikipedia maths articles' general awfulness: 1. They're probably written by people that just learnt about them and want to show off their superior knowledge rather than explain the concept. 2. The people writing them think it's supposed to be a precise mathematical definition of the concept, rather than an easy to understand introduction. It's like they're writing a formal model instead of a tutorial. Often the Mathworld articles are a lot better than Wikipedia, when they exist at least.
• 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
  Fun bit of trivia (though depressing) from the wiki The term "MARS" is trademarked and licensed to Salford Systems. In order to avoid trademark infringements, many open-source implementations of MARS are called "Earth".
• blitzar 2y ago
  Multivariate adaptive regression spline saw the hype and pivoted to AI