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2013 Nov 06
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Nonnormal Residuals and GAMs
Greetings, My question is more algorithmic than prectical. What I am trying to determine is, are the GAM algorithms used in the mgcv package affected by nonnormally-distributed residuals? As I understand the theory of linear models the Gauss-Markov theorem guarantees that least-squares regression is optimal over all unbiased estimators iff the data me...