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Dear all, I'm using a binomial distribution with a logit link function to fit a GAM model. I have 2 questions about it. First i am not sure if i've chosen the most adequate distribution. I don't have presence/absence data (0/1) but I do have a rate which values vary between 0 and 1. This means the response variable is continuous even if within a limited interval. Should i use

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

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 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

Hello, I have a question regarding model selection and dropping of terms for GAMs fitted with package mgcv. I am following the approach suggested in Wood (2001), Wood and Augustin (2002). I fitted a saturated model, and I find from the plots that for two of the covariates, 1. The confidence interval includes 0 almost everywhere 2. The degrees of freedom are NOT close to 1 3. The partial

I am a new user of R. I am trying to fit gam model with our air pollution data. I used Foreign package to call data from SPSS and used MGCV package to fit gam. The following are the steps I used: > dust<- read.spss("a:dust9600jan.sav") > c<-gam(MRESPALL~s(DUSTM)+s(TEMP)+s(RH),family=poisson,data=dust) > summary(c) Family: poisson Link function: log Formula: MRESPALL ~

I have a question about how to compare a GLM with a GAM model using anova function. A GLM is performed for example: model1 <-glm(formula = exitus ~ age+gender+diabetes, family = "binomial", na.action = na.exclude) A second nested model could be: model2 <-glm(formula = exitus ~ age+gender, family = "binomial", na.action = na.exclude) To compare these two GLM

Hi, I would like to announce the first version of GraspeR. It is a port of GRASP (Generalized Regression Analysis and Spatial Predictions) written for S-Plus, to R. It serves as an "automated" method for doing spatial predictions. You can find the first testing version at http://www.fivaz.ch/grasper/index.html. For now, I provide a dump file you can read with source(). A UNIX package is

hello, I am looking for a step() function for GAM's. In the book Statistical Computing by Crawley and a removal of predictors has been done "by hand" model <- gam(y ~s(x1) +s(x2) + s(x3)) summary(model) model2 <- gam(y ~s(x2) + s(x3)) # removal of the unsignificant variable #then comparing these two models if an significant increase occurs. anova(model, model2,

Hi, I have two questions: First, does anyone know how to put a combobox inside a GUI made with Tcl/Tk ? I think there isn't a simple way to do this (a command like tkcombobox()!), but is it possible to write a more complex code to achieve this ? Second, when I put two listboxes in the same window or frame (even in two different toplevel windows), I cannot select things in the two lists

Hi, Here is what I want to do. I have a dataset containing 4.2 *million* rows and about 10 columns and want to do some statistics with it, mainly using it as a prediction set for GAM and GLM models. I tried to load it from a csv file but, after filling up memory and part of the swap (1 gb each), I get a segmentation fault and R stops. I use R under Linux. Here are my questions : 1) Has

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'm running gam (mgcv version 1.3-29) and glm (logit) (stats R 2.61) on the same models/data, and I got error messages for the gam() model and warnings for the glm() model. R-help suggested that the glm() warning messages are due to the model perfectly predicting binary output. Perhaps the model overfits the data? I inspected my data and it was not immediately obvious to me (though I

I received an assignment that I have to do in R, but I'm absolutely not very good at it. The task is the following: http://www.nabble.com/file/p22804957/question8.jpg To do this, we also get the following pieces of code (not in correct order): http://www.nabble.com/file/p22804957/hints.jpg I'm terrible at this and I'm completely stuck. The model I chose can be found in here:

Hello. In SPLUS I am used to comparing nested models in gam using the anova function. When I tried this in R this doesn't work (the error message says that anova() doesn't recognise the gam fit). What must I do to use anova with gam? To be clear, I want to do the following: fFit1<-gam(y~x,.) fit1<-fam(y~s(x),.) anova(fit2,fit1,test="F") Thanks. Bill Shipley

hello to everybody: I would to know with ranges of GCV or UBRE values can be considered as adequate to consider a GAM as correct Thanks in advance -- David Nogu?s Bravo Functional Ecology and Biodiversity Department Pyrenean Institute of Ecology Spanish Research Council Av. Monta?ana 1005 Zaragoza - CP 50059 976716030 - 976716019 (fax)

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew how to work out the number of knots that should be applied to each variable when using gams in the mgcv library? Any help or references would be much appreciated. Thanks Kathryn Baldwin

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'm analyzing a dichotomous dependent variable (dv) with more than 100 measurements (within-subjects variable: hours24) per subject and more than 100 subjects. The high number of measurements allows me to model more complex temporal trends. I would like to compare different models using GLM, GLMM, GAM and GAMM, basically do demonstrate the added value of GAMs/GAMMs relative to

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