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Recently I was using GAM and couldn't help noticing the following incoherence in prediction: > data(gam.data) > data(gam.newdata) > gam.object <- gam(y ~ s(x,6) + z, data=gam.data) > predict(gam.object)[1] 1 0.8017407 > predict(gam.object,data.frame(x=gam.data$x[1],z=gam.data$z[1]))...

Hello, I am using the function step.gam() from the 'gam' package (header info from library(help=gam) included below) and have come across some behavior that I cannot understand. In short, I have written a function that 1) creates a dataframe, 2) calls gam() to create a gam object, then 3) calls step.gam() to run stepwise sel...

Hello everyone. I am doing a logistic gam (package mgcv) on a pretty large dataframe (130.000 cases with 100 variables). Because of that, the gam is fitted on a random subset of 10000. Now when I want to predict the values for the rest of the data, I get the following error: > gam.basis_alleakti.1.pr=predict(gam.basis_alleakti.1,...

I am trying to compare and contrast the smoothing in the {mgcv} version of gam vs. the {gam} version of gam but I get a strange side effects when I try to alternate calls to these routines, even though I detach and unload namespaces. Specifically when I start up R the following code runs successfully until the last line i.e. plot(g4,se=TRUE) when I get "Error in...

Readers, I have been reading 'the r book' by Crawley and think that the generalised additive model is appropriate for this problem. The package 'gam' was installed using the command (as root) install.package("gam") ... library(gam) > library(gam) Loading required package: splines Loading required package: akima > library(mgcv) This is mgcv 1.3-25 Attaching package: 'mgcv' The following object(s) are mask...

I'm fitting a Poisson gam model, say model<-gam(a65tm~as.factor(day.week )+as.factor(week)+offset(log(pop65))+s(time,k=10,bs="cr",fx=FALSE,by=NA,m=1),sp=c( 0.001),data=dati1,family=poisson) Currently I've difficulties in obtaining right predictions by using gam.predict function with MGCV package in R ve...

Qusetion #1 ********* Model selection in GAM can be done by using: 1. step.gam {gam} : A directional stepwise search 2. gam {mgcv} : Smoothness estimation using GCV or UBRE/AIC criterion Suppose my model starts with a additive model (linear part + spline part). Using gam() {mgcv} i got estimated degrees of freedom(edf) for the smoothing spli...

I would like to request help with the following: I am trying to use a Generalized Additive Model (gam) to examine the density distribution of fish as a function of latitude and longitude as continuous variables, and year as a categorical variable. The model is written as:   gam.out   <-  gam(Density ~ s(Lat) + s(Lon) + as.factor(Year))   The fitted model prediction of the link function is gam.ou...

Dear R users, I recently stumbled upon problems of reproducibility while running GAM analyses in different R and gam package versions. In the example below, a small dataset is created in which the y and x1 variables are 100% correlated. The intents of this example were primarily for regression testing and, secondarily, to evaluate how the gam algorithm behaves under extreme/limit c...

I am using gam in mgcv (1.3-22) and trying to use gcv to help with model selection. However, I'm a little confused by the process of assessing GCV scores based on their magnitude (or on relative changes in magnitude). Differences in GCV scores often seem "obvious" with my poisson gams but with neg...

I have contributed a "gam" library to CRAN, which implements "Generalized Additive Models". This implementation follows closely the description in the GAM chapter 7 of the "white" book "Statistical Models in S" (Chambers & Hastie (eds), 1992, Wadsworth), as well as the philosophy in...

I have contributed a "gam" library to CRAN, which implements "Generalized Additive Models". This implementation follows closely the description in the GAM chapter 7 of the "white" book "Statistical Models in S" (Chambers & Hastie (eds), 1992, Wadsworth), as well as the philosophy in...

I have a question about how to compare a GLM with a GAM model using anova function. A GLM is performed for example: model1 <-glm(formula = exitus ~ age+gender+diabetes, family = "binomial", na.action = na.exclude) A second nested model could be: model2 <-glm(formula = exitus ~ age+gender, family = "binomial", na.action = n...

At office I have been introduced by another company to new, complex energy forecasting models using gams as the basic software. I have been told by the company offering the models that gams is specialised in dealing with huge, hevy-weight linear and non-linear modelling (see an example in http://www.gams.com/modtype/index.htm) and they say it is almost the only option for doing it. I would like t...

Hello, in the paper "Avoiding the effects of concurvity in GAM's .." of Figueiras et al. (2003) it is mentioned that in GLM collinearity is taken into account in the calc of se but not in GAM (-> results in confidence interval too narrow, p-value understated, GAM S-Plus version). I haven't found any references to GAM and concurvity or coll...

I'm beginner in R! I have a lot of problems on R..... I have three questions about GAM 1. What is the function of Gaussian distribution in GAM?(if I choose family is Gaussian) Is it used in the predictand value (Y)? 2. How to plot a graph the gam function? For example: y<-gam(a~s(b),family=gaussian (link=log) ,Data) how to plot x axis is s(b) and y axis is log a??? 3. if I use...

Dear Trevor, I've noticed a discrepancy in the degrees of freedom reported by gam() from the gam package in R vs. gam() in S-PLUS. The nonparametric df differ by 1; otherwise (except for things that depend upon the df), the output is the same: --------- snip ------------ *** From R (gam version 0.93): > mod.gam <- gam(prestige ~ lo(income, span=.6), data=Prestige) >...

Hi, I need further help with my GAMs. Most models I test are very obviously non-linear. Yet, to be on the safe side, I report the significance of the smooth (default output of mgcv's summary.gam) and confirm it deviates significantly from linearity. I do the latter by fitting a second model where the same predictor is en...

...nalyzing a dichotomous dependent variable (dv) with more than 100 measurements (within-subjects variable: hours24) per subject and more than 100 subjects. The high number of measurements allows me to model more complex temporal trends. I would like to compare different models using GLM, GLMM, GAM and GAMM, basically do demonstrate the added value of GAMs/GAMMs relative to GLMs/GLMMs, by fitting splines. GLMMs/GAMMs are used to possibly improve fits from GLMs/GAMs by accounting for serial dependence. My idea is to use AIC to compare the different models. I’ve noticed that when settin...

I've got a small problem. I have some observational data (environmental samples: abiotic explanatory variable and biological response) to which I've fitted both a multiple linear regression model and also a gam (mgcv) using smooths for each term. The gam clearly fits far better than the lm model based on AIC (difference in AIC ~ 8), in addition the adjusted R squared for the gam is clearly better. I then want to make some plots of predicted values from both models with confidence intervals. So I can get...