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Hello everyone,          Dr. wood told me that I can adapting his example to force cubic spline to pass through certain point.          I still have no idea how to achieve this. Suppose we want to force the cubic spline to pass (1,1), how can I achieve this by adapting the following code? # Penalized example: monotonic penalized regression spline ..... # Generate data from a monotonic truth.

Dear all, I want to use smooth.spline to construct a cubic smoothing spline and its first derivative to my data. However, the predict.smooth.spline does not seem to provide a SE for both the fitted values and their derivatives. How should I calculate it? Thank you very much, Bingzhang

Hi all, I'm looking for smooth monotone estimation packages, preferably using splines. I downloaded the 'cobs' package and intend to use it, but since it offers only quadratic splines based on L1 minimization, I'd like to compare its performance to that of a more 'mainstream' cubic-spline, L2-norm minimizing spline. Preferably a smoothing spline. Does anyone know of such

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 have been trying to take the derivative of a quadratic B-spline obtained by using the COBS library. What I would like to do is similar to what one can do by using fit<-smooth.spline(cdf) xx<-seq(-10,10,.1) predict(fit, xx, deriv = 1) The goal is to fit the spline to data that is approximating a cumulative distribution function (e.g. in my example, cdf is a 2-column matrix with x

Hello,        Dr. Simon Wood told me how to force a cubic spline passing through a point. The code is as following. Anyone  who knows how I can change the code to force the first derivative to be certain value. For example, the first derivative of the constrained cubic spline equals 2 at point (0, 0.6).        I really appreciate your help!        Thanks!                 Best             Victor   

Hallo, I'm facing a problem and I would really appreciate your support. I have to translate some Matalb code in R that I don't know very well but I would like to. I have to interpolate 5 point with a cubic spline function and then I expect my function returns the Y value as output a specific X value inside the evaluation range. Let's suppose that: 1- *X = [-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]* 2

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 Smoothing Splines, D.G. Pollock (available online) where we have a list of points (xi, yi), the yi points are random such that: y_i = f(x_i) + e_i

Dear all, Is the restricted cubic spline function working properly in the glm model? We used glm(y~rcs(x,5), family=binomial) but it seems that for some theoretical reasons the rcs, restricted cubic spline function can not be fitted by a glm function. Is this correct? Regards, Jan ((Originally, we used lrm(y~ rcs(x,5)) but we couldn't find how to derive the AIC value of the fitted model.

Greetings, I would like to use a cubic spline or smoother to model the fixed effects within nlme. So far the only smoother I have been able to get to run successfully in nlme is smooth(). I tried smooth.spline: fixed=list(lKa~1,lCL~smooth.spline(BSA, df=3)) the error I got was the following. Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, extranames, : invalid

Hi, all I am trying to get the basis matrix and penalty matrix for natural cubic splines. In the "splines" package of R,"ns" can generate the B-spline basis matrix for a natural cubic spline. How can I get the basis matrix and penalty matrix for natural cubic spline. Thanks a lot! Lee [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Suppose I have two var x and y,now I want to fits a natural cubic spline in x to y,at the same time create new var containing the smoothed values of y. How can I get it?

Hello,   does anyone have an example on how to use restricted cubic splines function rcs within survfit.cph, if cph (Cox Proportional Hazard Regression) was done with restricted cubic splines (which I made to work)? Thank you. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

(corrected version of previous posting) I fit a GAM to turtle growth data following methods in Limpus & Chaloupka 1997 (http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/149/m149p023.pdf). I want to obtain figures similar to Fig 3 c & f in Limpus & Chaloupka (1997), which according to the figure legend are "expected size-at-age functions" obtained by numerically integrating

I'm trying to use R to determine the quality of a cubic Bezier curve approximation of an elliptical arc. I know the four control points and I want to compute (x,y) coordinates of many points on the curve. I can't find anything in either the base distribution or CRAN that does this; all the spline-related packages seem to be about *fitting* piecewise Bezier curves to a data set.

I want to compare the fit of a quadratic model to continuous data, with that of a cubic spline fit. Is there a way of computing AIC from for e.g. a GAM with a smoothing spine, and comparing this to AIC from a quadratic model? Cheers ****************************************** Tom Reed PhD Student Institute of Evolutionary Biology 102 Ashworth Laboratories Kings Buildings University of

Hi, I am approximation a value function (in dynamic programming) V: R^n->R. In different versions of the problem, n is between 2 and 5. I would like to use splines to use this, I checked the mailing list and CRAN but couldn't find anything that would help me (Tps in fields is too slow, cobs would be really nice but seems to be one-dimensional). Is there any package that would at least

I have a question about the basis functions of cubic regression spline in mgcv. Are there some ways I can get the exact forms of the basis functions and the penalty matrix that are used in mgcv? Thanks in advance! Yan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi Users, I want to fit the maximums of a data series with a cubic spline. How do I go about this in R. I failed to figure out how I can use the mgcv library to do this. Thanks ---------------------------- ZABLONE

Dear Thomas, I want to use evaluate effect of Age using restricted cubic form in the FGR function as Fgr.crr <- FGR(Hist(time, event) ~ rcs(Age_years), data=dat) It provides error. " Error in parse(text = termtext, keep.source = FALSE): .... 1: response ~ rcs(Age_years Do I need to change any of the R code? Regards Amalraj Raja The University of Aberdeen is a charity