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Qusetion #1 ********* Model selection in GAM can be done by using: 1. step.gam {gam} : A directional stepwise search 2. gam {mgcv} : Smoothness estimation using GCV or UBRE/AIC criterion Suppose my model starts with a additive model (linear part + spline part). Using gam() {mgcv} i got estimated degrees of freedom(edf) for the smoothing splines. Now I want to use the functional form of my model

I'm fitting a Poisson gam model, say model<-gam(a65tm~as.factor(day.week )+as.factor(week)+offset(log(pop65))+s(time,k=10,bs="cr",fx=FALSE,by=NA,m=1),sp=c( 0.001),data=dati1,family=poisson) Currently I've difficulties in obtaining right predictions by using gam.predict function with MGCV package in R version 2.2.1 (see below my syntax).

Hello, I'd like to understand 'what' is predicting the response for library(mgcv) gam? For example: library(mgcv) fit <- gam(y~s(x),data=as.data.frame(l_yx),family=binomial) xx <- seq(min(l_yx[,2]),max(l_yx[,2]),len=101) plot(xx,predict(fit,data.frame(x=xx),type="response"),type="l") I want to see the generalized function(s) used to predict the response

Dear R-users: Im trying (using gam package) to develop a stepwise analysis. My gam object contains five pedictor variables (a,b,c,d,e,f). I define the step.gam: step.gam(gamobject, scope=list("a"= ~s(a,4), "b"= ~s(b,4), "c"= ~s(c,4), "d"= ~s(d,4), "e"= ~s(e,4), "f"= ~s(f,4))) However, the result shows a formula containing the whole

Sometimes, for specific models, I get this error from predict.gam in library mgcv: Error in complete.cases(object) : negative length vectors are not allowed Here's an example: model.calibrate <- gam(meansalesw ~ s(tscore,bs="cs",k=4), data=toplot, weights=weight, gam.method="perf.magic") > test <- predict(model.calibrate,newdata) Error in

Dear all, I run the GAMs (generalized additive models) in gam(mgcv) using the following codes. m.gam <-gam(mark~s(x)+s(y)+s(lstday2004)+s(ndvi2004)+s(slope)+s(elevation)+disbinary,family=binomial(logit),data=point) And two repeated warnings appeared. Warnings$B!'(B 1: In gam.fit(G, family = G$family, control = control, gamma = gamma, ... : Algorithm did not converge 2: In gam.fit(G,

Hi everybody, I am working with gams and I have found some questions when plotting gams models. I am using mgcv, and my model looks something like this: model<- gam(x ~ s(lat,long)) I can plot the output of the model using plot(model) or plot.gam(model) and I get a surface plot. That is ok, but what I want to do now is to extract the data used to perform the surface plot. Like that I

Hi, I need further help with my GAMs. Most models I test are very obviously non-linear. Yet, to be on the safe side, I report the significance of the smooth (default output of mgcv's summary.gam) and confirm it deviates significantly from linearity. I do the latter by fitting a second model where the same predictor is entered without the s(), and then use anova.gam to compare the

Dear all, I'm a fairly new R user having two questions regarding gam: 1. The prediction example on p. 38 in the mgcv manual. In order to get predictions based on the original data set, by leaving out the 'newdata' argument ("newd" in the example), I get an error message "Warning message: the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used in: if

In Dr. Wood's book on GAM, he suggests in section 4.1.6 that it might be useful to shrink a single smooth by adding S=S+epsilon*I to the penalty matrix S. The context was the need to be able to shrink the term to zero if appropriate. I'd like to do this in order to shrink the coefficients towards zero (irrespective of the penalty for "wiggliness") - but not necessarily all the

Dear all, I've now spent a couple of days trying to learn R and, in particular, the gam() function, and I now have a few questions and reflections regarding the latter. Maybe these things are implemented in some way that I'm not yet aware of or have perhaps been decided by the R community to not be what's wanted. Of course, my lack of complete theoretical understanding of what

Hi, I am fairly new to GAM and started using package mgcv. I like the fact that optimal smoothing is automatically used (i.e. df are not determined a priori but calculated by the gam procedure). But the mgcv manual warns that p-level for the smooth can be underestimated when df are estimated by the model. Most of the time my p-levels are so small that even doubling them would not result

Dear R users, I'm new to both R and to this list and would like to get advice on how to build generalized additive models in R. Based on the description of gam, which I found on the R website, I specified the following model: model1<-gam(ST~s(MOWST1),family=binomial,data=strikes.S), in which ST is my binary response variable and MOWST1 is a categorical independent variable. I get the

I stumbled across a mild glitch when trying to compare the result of gam() fitting with the result of lm() fitting. The following code demonstrates the problem: library(gam) x <- rep(1:10,10) set.seed(42) y <- rnorm(100) fit1 <- lm(y~x) fit2 <- gam(y~lo(x)) fit3 <- lm(y~factor(x)) print(anova(fit1,fit2)) # No worries. print(anova(fit1,fit3)) # Likewise. print(anova(fit2,fit3)) #

Hi, I have a function, callGam, that fits a gam model to a subset of a dataframe. The argument to callGam is a formula, the subset is determined inside the function itself. My na??ve approach generates and error, see below. I guess this is because 'idx' is loocked up in the environment of 'formula', but I am too ignorant about environments to be able to tell for sure. Could

Hi everyone, I ran a binomial GAM consisting of a tensor product of two continuous variables, a continuous parametric term and crossed random intercepts on a data set with 13,042 rows. When trying to plot the tensor product with vis.gam(), I get the following error message: Error in persp.default(m1, m2, z, col = col, zlim = c(min.z, max.z), xlab = view[1], : invalid 'z' limits In

Hi, I am using the gam function in the mgcv package, I have random effects in my model (bs="re") this has worked fine, but after I updated the mgcv package to version 1.7-19 I recive an error message when I run the model. > fit1<-gam(IV~s(RUTE,bs="re")+s(T13)+s(H40)+factor(AAR)+s(V3)+s(G1)+s(H1)+s(V1)+factor(LEDD),data=data5,method="ML") > summary.gam(fit1)

Hi, Is it possible to compare two GAM objects created with the gam() function from the mgcv package. I use a slightly modified version of anova.glm() named anova.gam(), modified from John Fox (2002). It often gives me some aberant responses, especially with "F" test. I use a quasibinomial model and scale (dispersion) is calculated and used in the calculation of the F value. Does someone

Hi everyone, I can't figure out how to extract by-factor random effect adjustments from a gam model (mgcv package). Example (from ?gam.vcomp): library(mgcv) set.seed(3) dat <- gamSim(1,n=400,dist="normal",scale=2) a <- factor(sample(1:10,400,replace=TRUE)) b <- factor(sample(1:7,400,replace=TRUE)) Xa <- model.matrix(~a-1) ## random main effects Xb <-

I fitted a GAM model with Poisson distribution to a data with about 200 observations. I noticed that the plot of the residuals versus fitted values show a trend. Residuals tend to be lower for higher fitted values. Because, I'm dealing with count data, I'm thinking that this might be due to overdispersion. Is there a way to account for overdispersion in any of the packages MGCV or GAM?