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2009 Feb 07
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paraPen in gam [mgcv 1.4-1.1] and centering constraints
...e the same centering constraint on user-defined penalized coefficient groups like it is implemented for the spline smoothing terms. The reason is that I have actually a factor coding different regions, and the penalty matrix results from the neighborhood structure in a Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF). So I can't choose one region as the reference category, because then the structure in the other regions would not contain the same information as before... Is there a way to constraint a group of coefficients to sum to zero? Thanks in advance, Daniel Sabanes