Dear UseRs: Recently, I have read an article regarding the association between age and lymph node metastases. http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/27/18/2931.long In statistical analysis, the authors stated "Because a nonlinear relationship between age and lymph node involvement was expected based on existing literature, lymph node involvement was also regressed on age using nonparametric logistic regression based on locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess)." <http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/27/18/2931.long#ref-11> Could someone explain nonparametric logistic regression based on locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess)? Or it is nonparametric regression based on locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess)
Thanks *Yao Zhu* *Department of Urology Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Shanghai, China* [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.