R help - Apr 2003 - spline with multiple predictor vars?

Hi, is there a way in R to generate a polynomial spline with multiple predictor
variables? I have one response and two predictors and I'm trying to fit a
spline model for this...

Please cc me on the reply..

Thanks,
nirmal

There are thin plate regression splines in mgcv and thin plate splines and
tensor product splines in gss that will probably do what you want.

See examples in mgcv helpfile ?gam for a couple of examples.
> Hi, is there a way in R to generate a polynomial spline with multiple
predictor
> variables? I have one response and two predictors and I'm trying to fit
a
> spline model for this...
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> Simon Wood simon at stats.gla.ac.uk        www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~simon/
>>  Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
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gam() and friends comes close.  Not literally a cubic B spline,
but the same effect.  "Generalized Additive Models" a la Hastie
and Tibshirani.

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Hi, is there a way in R to generate a polynomial spline with multiple
predictor
> variables? I have one response and two predictors and I'm trying to fit
a
> spline model for this...
>
> Please cc me on the reply..
>
> Thanks,
> nirmal
>
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Thanks for all the suggestions.. I will investigate thin plate regression 
splines, gam, mars... would the best references for these be the ones 
mentioned in the help for these?

Thanks,
nirmal