IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, cilt.39, sa.4, ss.51-63, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Determining real effects on Internet dependency is too crucial with unbiased and robust statistical method. MARS is a new non-parametric method in use in the literature for parameter estimations of cause and effect based research. MARS can both obtain legible model curves and make unbiased parametric predictions.