similar to: smoothing splines and degrees of freedom

Hello, I'm running mixed models in GAMM4 with 2 (non-nested) random intercepts and I want to include a spline term for one of my exposure variables. However, when I include a spline term, I always get reported degrees of freedom of less than 1, even when I know that my spline is using more than 1 degree of freedom. For example, here is the code for my model: >

Hi, Given a positive integer N, and a real number \lambda such that 0 < \lambda < 1, I would like to generate an N by N stochastic matrix (a matrix with all the rows summing to 1), such that it has the second largest eigenvalue equal to \lambda (Note: the dominant eigenvalue of a stochastic matrix is 1). I don't care what the other eigenvalues are. The second eigenvalue is

Assume that we collect below data : - subjects = 20 males + 20 females, every single individual is independence, and difference events = 1, 2, 3... n covariates = 4 blood types A, B, AB, O http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4245397/CodeCogsEqn.jpeg ?m = hazards rates for male ?n = hazards rates for female Wm = Wn x ?, frailty for males, where ? is the edge ratio of male compare to female Wn =

Hi, I would like to know whether there exist algorithms to compute the coefficients or, at least, the degree of the minimal polynomial of a square matrix A (over the field of complex numbers)? I don't know whether this would require symbolic computation. If not, has any of the algorithms been implemented in R? Thanks very much, Ravi. P.S. Just for the sake of completeness, a

Dear list, I do apologize if these are basic questions. I am fitting some GAM models using the mgcv package and following the model selection criteria proposed by Wood and Augustin (2002, Ecol. Model. 157, p. 157-177). One criterion to decide if a term should be dropped from a model is if the estimated degrees of freedom (EDF) for the term are close to their lower limit. What would be the

Dear all, I am using the "mgcv" package by Simon Wood to estimate an additive mixed model in which I assume normal distribution for the residuals. I would like to test this model vs a standard parametric mixed model, such as the ones which are possible to estimate with "lme". Since the smoothing splines can be written as random effects, is it correct to use an (approximate)

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 all, I am new to R, and I am a biotechnologist, I want to fit a smoothing spline with smoothing parameter selected by generalized maximum likelihood. I was wondering what function implement this, and, if possible how I can find the fitted results for a certain point (or predict from the fitted spline if this is the correct language) -- View this message in context:

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) +

Dear R users, When running the program below I receive the following error message: fit <- optim(parm, objective, yt = tyield, hessian = TRUE) Error in as.vector(data) : no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector I can't figure out what the problem is exactly. I imagine that it has something to do with "tyield" being a matrix. Any help on explaining what's going on

loess() should be able to do robust 2D smoothing. There's no natural ordering in 2D, so defining running medians can be tricky. I seem to recall Prof. Koenker talked about some robust 2D smoothing method at useR! 2004, but can't remember if it's available in some packages. Andy From: Vladislav Petyuk > > Hi, > Are there any multidimenstional versions of runmed() and >

Hi, I am looking for an R package that would calculate multivarite (mostly 2d and 3d, tensor) cubic interpolating splines, so that I could evaluate these splines (and their derivatives) at many points (unkown at the time of calculating the spline polynomials) repeatedly. To make things concrete, I have an array V with dim(V) = k and gridpoint vectors grid=list(...), length(grid[[i]])==k[i],

Dear Sir/Madam, I apologize for any cross-posting. I got a simple question, which I thought the R list may help me to find an answer. Suppose we have Y_1, Y_2, ., Y_n ~ Poisson (Lambda_i) and Lambda_i ~Gamma(alpha_i, beta_i). Empirical Bayes Estimator for hyper-parameters of the gamma distr, i.e. (alpha_t, beta_t) are needed. y=c(12,5,17,14) n=4 What about a Hierarchal B ayes

Dear R-hep, I'm trying to get the first derivative of a smooth from a gam model like: model<-gam(y~s(x,bs="cr", k=5)+z) and need the derivative: ds(x)/dx. Since coef(model) give me all the parameters, including the parameters of the basis, I just need the 1st derivative of the basis s(x).1, s(x).2, s(x).3, s(x).4. If the basis were generated with the function

Hi, I'm trying to estimate the parameters of a state space model of the following form measurement eq: z_t = a + b*y_t + eps_t transition eq y_t+h = (I -exp(-hL))theta + exp(-hL)y_t+ eta_{t+h}. The problem is that the distribution of the innovations of the transition equation depend on the previous value of the state variable. To be exact: y_t|y_{t-1} ~N(mu, Q_t) where Q is a diagonal

hi, i'm working with mgcv packages and specially gam. My exemple is: >test<-gam(B~s(pred1)+s(pred2)) >plot(test,pages=1) when ploting test, you can view pred1 vs s(pred1, edf[1] ) & pred2 vs s(pred2, edf[2] ) I would like to know if there is a way to access to those terms (s(pred1) & s(pred2)). Does someone know how? the purpose is to access to equation of smooths terms

Dear useRs, I am using mgcv version 1.7-16. When I create a model with a few non-linear terms and a random intercept for (in my case) country using s(Country,bs="re"), the representative line in my model (i.e. approximate significance of smooth terms) for the random intercept reads: edf Ref.df F p-value s(Country) 36.127 58.551 0.644

I was wondering if someone familiar with survival analysis can help me with the following. I would like to fit a Weibull curve, that may be dependent on a covariate, my dataframe "labdata" that has the fields "cov", "time", and "censor". Do I do the following? wieb<-survreg(Surv(labdata$time, labadata$censor)~labdata$cov,

List members, Via searches I've seen similar discussion of this topic but have not seen resolution of the particular issue I am experiencing. If my search on this topic failed, I apologize for the redundancy. I am attempting to generate random covariance matrices but would like the corresponding correlations to be uniformly distributed between -1 and 1. The approach I have been using is:

The officially sanctioned way to put the expression "lambda_1 = x" in a title is something like this: title(substitute(lambda[1] == lamb, list(lamb = x))) but suppose I have two lambdas and would like something like "lambda_1 = x_1 , lambda_2 = x_2" to appear. What then? Undoubtedly I'm missing something blindingly obvious with lists, but having tried several