Applying the noising method to find the best regression model.

Regression analysis is one of the most applicable methods in statistical methodology used to find the best regression model according to the relationship among several variables in a system. The estimation of regression model, which is solved as a formulate optimization problem and making use of heuristic algorithms, is much simpler and faster than classic methods. Genetic algorithm (GA) as one of the heuristic algorithms had been used to solve this problem. In this paper, we extend the noising method as a recent combinatorial optimization problem to estimate the best regression model and evaluate its performances compared to GA. Also, in order to enhance the performance of our GA, we apply the Taguchi experimental design method to tune the parameters of the algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]