similar to: basic cubic spline smoothing (resending because not sure about pending)

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) +

Hello, I am using R and the smooth.Pspline function in the pspline package to smooth some data by using natural cubic splines. After fitting a sufficiently smooth spline using the following call: (ps=smooth.Pspline(x,y,norder=2,spar=0.8,method=1) [the values of x are age in years from 1 to 100] I tried to check that R in fact had fitted a natural cubic spline by checking that the resulting

Dear all, Given a LME model (following the notation of Pinheiro and Bates 2000) y_i = X_i*beta + Z_i*b_i + e_i, is it possible to extract the variance-covariance matrix for the estimated beta_i hat and b_i hat from the lme fitted object? The reason for needing this is because I want to have interval prediction on the predicted values (at level = 0:1). The "predict.lme" seems to

Hi all, I have some difficulties with the lme function and so this is my problem. Supoose i have the following model y_(ijk)=beta_j + e_i + epsilon_(ijk) where beta_j are fixed effects, e_i is a random effect and epsilon_(ijk) is the error. If i want to estimate a such model, i execute >lme(y~vec.J , random~1 |vec .I ) where y is the vector of my data, vec.J is a factor object

Everyone, One of our developers was kind enough to insert some bug checking into the mod_auth_pam and mod_auth_sys_group so that we could see a little more of what was going on with our authentication failures. Here is what we just saw. Two of our users NA\connelmp and NA\guminssa both started getting messages that they were not part of the required group. Here is the log for

I have a dataset which I want to model using a Poisson distribution, with a given parameter. I would like to know what is the proper way to do a ''goodness of fit'' test using R. I know the steps I''d take if I were to do it ''manually'': grouping the numbers into classes, calculating the expected frequencies using ''ppois'', then

Dear R users, I am writing to you because I have a few question on how to fix the error term variances in lme in the hope that you could help me. To my knowledge, the closest possibility is to fix the var-cov structure, but not the whole var-cov matrix. I found an old thread (a few years ago) about this, and it seems that the only alternative is to write the likelihood down and use optim or a

I've had a play with this and, due to my own short-comings, remain none the wiser. In particular, I'm not sure what value of 'spar' is consistent with the magic lambda=1/1600 for quarterly data. I initially interpreted spar as lambda and tried setting spar=1/1600. This results in almost no smoothing while spar=1600 causes an error. The smooth.spline function seems to want

Hello R users! I've been experimenting with lmer to estimate a mixed model with a dichotomous dependent variable. The goal is to fit a hierarchical model in which we compare the effect of individual and city-level variables. I've run up against a conceptual problem that I expect one of you can clear up for me. The question is about random effects in the context of a model fit with a

Hello! I would like to use lmer() to fit data, which are some estimates and their standard errors i.e kind of a "meta" analysis. I wonder if weights argument is the right one to use to include uncertainty (standard errors) of "data" into the model. I would like to use lmer(), since I would like to have a "freedom" in modeling, if this is at all possible. For

Everyone, Here is a challenge for all of you samba experts! Lately I have been seeing a problem where winbind is not correctly identifying a user as a member of a group he most certainly belong to. This is with a Domain Local group so I know samba should support it. Users access a HTTPS (SSL) webpage that is secured by a Domain Local group. Sometimes they get in,

Hi is it possible to fit a trend line (or some other panel function) through each of multiple data series plotted on the same graph? Specifically, while one can do something like xyplot(a+b+c~x) which plots three series, a,b & c, but can one automatically fit lines through each of them? I suppose one could generate three more variables afit, bfit, and cfit with a model & predict and

hi! i want to change the "robustness weights" used by loess. these are described on page 316 of chambers and hastie's "statistical models in S" book as r_i = B(e_i,6m) where B is tukey's biweight function, e_i are the residulas, and m is the median average distance from 0 of the residuals. i want to change 6m to, say, 3m. is there a way to do this? i cant

Hello R-Users, I have recently run into several problems using vgam() in the VGAM package. I am hoping someone might have some solutions... Briefly, I have been trying to fit GAM models for zero-altered negative binomial models. 1. When fitting smoothed parameters (e.g. s(X, df=2)) changing the degrees-of-freedom has no effect on the level of smoothing (e.g. number of knots for the

Hi, I am trying to compile R-2.2.1 on Solaris 2.9 with a 64-bit build. Following the instructions in "R Installation and Adminstration", I changed the following settings in "config.site": CC="gcc -m64" F77="g77 -64" CXX="g++ -m64" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/local/lib" But I got the following error messages:

Dear R-helpers: (this is part of a bigger program) the following fails as a function, but runs OK if we comment out the fnfn_ function() line. Any hint would be appreciated. -Yudi- R : Copyright 1998, The R Development Core Team Version 0.63.0 Beta (Nov 13, 1998) -- on WIndows3.11 fnfn _ function (m=10,n=10,spar=2) { fn _ function(u,v){ uc_ u-floor(m/2)-1 vc_ v-floor(n/2)-1

To whom it may concern, I don't know whether this is really a bug with the Pspline package or only a problem with my installation. Things work fine in Linux but not in Mac OS X (Darwin). Both system run the latest public versions of R and Pspline. predict.smooth.Pspline produces only NaN instead of predicted values when norder>2: > library (Pspline) > tt <- seq

Can someone please show me how to smooth time series data that I have in the form of a zoo object? I have a monthly economies series and all I really need is to see a less jagged line when I plot it. If I do something like s <- smooth.spline(d.zoo$Y, spar = 0.2) plot(predict(s,index(d.zoo)), xlab = "Year") # not defined for Date objects and if I do something like

Hi, I posted some days ago a question concerning the computation of lambda in the smooth.spline function (which I repreat at the bottom of the mail) given _df_ . Unfortunately the documentation is not clear to me. Maybee someone can help to answer in my view the basic question: If the penalized log likelihood is L = (y - f)' W (y - f) + lambda c' Sigma c how the _lambda_ in the above

Please preemptively excuse my ignorance. I'm trying to fit a cubic smoothing spline to a time series according to a method encountered in a paper. The authors state that they fit a spline whose frequency response is 50% at a wavelength of n years where n is 67% of the length of the time series. Is it possible to fit a spline like this in R using the spar parameter in smooth.spline? Or is