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2005 Oct 12
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step.gam- question
This is covered in the helpfile, but perhaps not clearly enough.
The gam chapter in the "white book" has more details.
step.gam moves around the terms in the scope aregumnet in an ordered
fashion.
So if a scope element is
~ 1 + x +s(x,4) + s(x,8)
and the formula at some stage is ~ x + ....
then if direction="both", the routine checks both "1" and "s(x,4)" (i.e
up or down the hierarchy by one move),
and does not check "s(x,8)&q...