Natural splines (nsin the splines package rcs in the Hmisc or Design package)
are linear outside of the range of the knots. You could use those and just
specify the knots to be within the portion that you want to allow to be
non-linear.
Hope this helps,
--
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111
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> i have a trend that it is linear at first and then it has a particular
> trend.
> There is a mathematic model, but it describes only the linear part. I
> have
> tried to use a spline regressione, but i have obtained a particular fit
> trend that it is unreal. Can i create a spline regression that it is of
> a
> unitary degree only at first?
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