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Hello, I come from a non statistics background, but R is available to me, and I needed to test an implementation of smoothing spline that I have written in c++, so I would like to match the results with R (for my unit tests) I am following http://www.nabble.com/file/p25569553/SPLINES.PDF SPLINES.PDF where we have a list of points (xi, yi), the yi points are random such that: y_i = f(x_i) + e_i where e_i is normal with mean 0 and variance sigma_i^2 There is a smoothing parameter lambda between 0 and 1. .when lambda is 0, smoothness is all that matters, and the fitt...