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You can use R objects, such as the return from gam, and the predict.gam function, from C. See the R extensions manual. Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: RenE J.V. Bertin [mailto:rjvbertin at despammed.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:42 PM To: Wiener, Matthew Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [despammed] RE: [R] multidimensional function fitting On Thu, 27

If something like the second-order function does not fit your data well, it may well be that the data do not admit a simple structure that you can easily code in C. If you expect the structure of the function to be simple, tell gam() so by specifying a small dimensional basis (via the k= argument in s()). This will probably ease the computational burden. HTH, Andy > -----Original

Hi there, Sorry for the double email. Does R have the packages for the following clustering methods? And if it does, what the commands for them? 1. SOM (Self-organization map) 2. Graph partitioning: 3. Neural network 4. Probability Binning Thank you very much! Linda [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Christoph Lehman had problems with seperated data in two-class logistic regression. One useful little trick is to penalize the logistic regression using a quadratic penalty on the coefficients. I am sure there are functions in the R contributed libraries to do this; otherwise it is easy to achieve via IRLS using ridge regressions. Then even though the data are separated, the penalized

Hi, I am trying to determine the number of units in the hidden layer and the decay rate using the CVnn2 script found in MASS directory (reference: pg 348,MASS-4). The model that I am using is in the form of Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3... + X11 and the underlying data is time-series in nature. I found the MASS and nnet package extremely useful (many thanks to the contributors). However I am getting

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

Hi All, I am trying to learn Neural Networks. I found that R has packages which can help build Neural Nets - the popular one being AMORE package. Is there any book / resource available which guides us in this subject using the AMORE package? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Indrajit

Hi, I've got the R library "mgcv" for GAM written by Simon Wood which works well in many instances. However, over the years I got attached to the S+ implementation of GAM which allows loess smoothing in more than 1 dimension as well as spline smoothing. Has anyone ported the S+ GAM library to R? Regards, Doug Beare. Fisheries Research Services, Marine Laboratory, Victoria Road,

Dear List, This may be related to this email thread initiated by Ben Bolker last month: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-July/061630.html In answering this Question on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/q/7195628/429846 I noticed that `methods()` was not listing some S3 methods for `plot()` provided by the mgcv package. At the time I wanted to check the development version of R as

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

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

Greetings, My question is more algorithmic than prectical. What I am trying to determine is, are the GAM algorithms used in the mgcv package affected by nonnormally-distributed residuals? As I understand the theory of linear models the Gauss-Markov theorem guarantees that least-squares regression is optimal over all unbiased estimators iff the data meet the conditions linearity,

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

Readers, I have been reading 'the r book' by Crawley and think that the generalised additive model is appropriate for this problem. The package 'gam' was installed using the command (as root) install.package("gam") ... library(gam) > library(gam) Loading required package: splines Loading required package: akima > library(mgcv) This is mgcv 1.3-25 Attaching

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 am trying to update the mgcv package on my Linux box and I keep getting an "Out of memory!" error. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Below is a snippet of the message that I keep getting: Thank you. Geoff ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'mgcv' Formats:

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

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 have a data frame with 6563 observations. I can run a regression with loess using four explanatory variables. If I add a fifth, R crashes. There are no missings in the data, and if I run a regression with any four of the five explanatory variables, it works. Its only when I go from four to five that it crashes. This leads me to believe that it is not an obvious problem with the data,

Dear all, Objective: I am trying to learn about neural networks. I want to see if i can train an artificial neural network model to discriminate between spam and nonspam emails. Problem: I created my own model (example 1 below) and got an error of about 7.7%. I created the same model using the Rattle package (example 2 below, based on rattles log script) and got a much better error of about