similar to: Use pcls in "mgcv" package to achieve constrained cubic spline

Hello everone,            Anyone who knows how to force a cubic smoothing spline to pass through a particular point?            I found on website  someone said that we can use "cobs package" to force the spline pass through certain points or impose shape           constraints (increasing, decreasing). However,  this package is using  B-spline and can only do linear and quadratic

Hi, Does anyone know how to fit a GAM where one or more smooth terms are constrained to be monotonic, in the presence of "by" variables or other terms? I looked at the example in ?pcls but so far have not been able to adapt it to the case where there is more than one predictor. For example, require(mgcv) set.seed(0) n<-100 # Generate data from a monotonic truth.

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   

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, I am trying to fit cubic spline to a data on mortality rate by age and year (1900-2008). The data is noisy and hence I would like to smooth using spline and also extrapolate beyond 2008. Data from 1900 to 1948 are very unreliable while data from 1948 to 2008 are reliable. I would like to have a higher weight for data between 1948 to 2008. I am not sure how to do this. When I smooth data from

Hello all, I'll level with you: I'm puzzled! How is it that this constrained regression routine using -pcls- runs satisfactorily (courtesy of Tian Zheng): library(mgcv) options(digits=3) x.1=rnorm(100, 0, 1) x.2=rnorm(100, 0, 1) x.3=rnorm(100, 0, 1) x.4=rnorm(100, 0, 1) y=1+0.5*x.1-0.2*x.2+0.3*x.3+0.1*x.4+rnorm(100, 0, 0.01) x.mat=cbind(rep(1, length(y)), x.1, x.2, x.3, x.4)

Hi, there, I have 5 datasets. I would like to choose a basis spline with same knots in GAM function in order to obtain same basis function for 5 datasets. Moreover, the basis spline is used to for an interaction of two covarites. I used "cr" in one covariate, but it can only smooth w.r.t 1 covariate. Can anyone give me some suggestion about how to choose a proper smoothing spline

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) +

I would like to fit a logistic regression using a smothing spline, where the spline is a piecewise cubic polynomial. Is the knots option used to define the subintervals for each piece of the cubic spline? If yes and there are k knots, then why does the coefficients field in the returned object from gam only list k coefficients? Shouldn't there be 4k -4 coefficients? Sincerely, Bill

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]]

Dear all, for demonstration purposes I want to display the basis functions used by a thin plate regression spline in a gamm model. I've been searching the help files, but I can't really figure out how to get the plots of the basis functions. Anybody an idea? Some toy code : require(mgcv) require(nlme) x1 <- 1:1000 x2 <- runif(1000,10,500) fx1 <- -4*sin(x1/50) fx2 <-

Dear R-helpers, I need to fit natural cubic spline with specified number of knots. I expected 'splines' package will be helpful, but I am confused by its help. Is more detailed documentation available for it or could you recommend another R function? Best regards Ondrej Mikula

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

Hi, I am using GAMs (package mgcv) to smooth event rates in a penalized regression setting and I was wondering if/how one can select the order of the derivative penalty. For my particular problem the order of the penalty (parameter "m" inside the "s" terms of the formula argument) appears to have a larger effect on the AIC/deviance of the estimated model than the

Dear list, I'm currently analyzing some count data using a hurdle model. I've used the rcspline.eval function in the Hmisc-library to contruct the spline terms for the regression model, and what I want in the end is the ability to compute coefficients and confidence intervals for different changes in the smooth function as well as plotting the smooth function along with the

Hi r-helpers. Please forgive my ignorance, but I would like to plot a smoothing spline (smooth.spline) from package "stats", and show the knots in the plot, and I can't seem to figure out where smooth.spline has located the knots (when I use nknots). Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about splines, but I know that they provide me an easy way to estimate the location of local

re: Cubic splines in package "mgcv" I don't have access to Gu (2002) but clearly the function R(x,z) defined on p126 of Simon Wood's book is piecewise quartic, not piecewise cubic. Like Kunio Takezawa (below) I was puzzled by the word "cubic" on p126. As Simon Wood writes, this basis is not actually used by mgcv when specifying bs="cr". Maybe the point is

Dear list, if I do smooth.spline(tmpSec, tmpT, all.knots=T) with the attached data, I get this error-message: Error in smooth.spline(tmpSec, tmpT, all.knots = T) : smoothing parameter value too small If I do smooth.spline(tmpSec[-single arbitrary number], tmpT[-single arbitrary number], all.knots=T) it works! I just don't see it. It works for hundrets other datasets, but not for

I have used LME to fit a mixed effects model on my data. The data has 274 subjects with 1 to 6 observations per subject. Time is not linearly associated with the outcome, so I used ns to fit a natural cubic spline with 3 auto knots. Subject and the natural cubic time of spline are both treated as random effects. This model has run without any problem, but now I would like to plot trajectories for

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