If you are already familiar with CARTŪ, you should feel right at home using MARS. Like CART, MARS™ can be run either using the intuitive Windows interface or by using commands submitted either at a command prompt or in batch files.
In this example, the objective is to build a regression model that predicts housing values using various quality of life attributes such as air pollution, crime, taxes, school quality, and distance to employment centers and highways.
Let's get started by opening the data.