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2012 Jun 21
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MGCV: Use of irls.reg option
Hi, In the help files in the ?mgcv package for the gam.control() function, there is an option irls.reg. The help files describe this option as: For most models this should be 0. The iteratively re-weighted least squares method by which GAMs are fitted can fail to converge in some circumstances. For example, data with many zeroes can cause problems in a model with a log link, because a mean of