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Dear List, I'm using GAMs in a multiple imputation project, and I want to be able to combine the parameter estimates and covariance matrices from each completed dataset's fitted model in the end. In order to do this, I need the knots to be uniform for each model with partially-imputed data. I want to specify these knots based on the quantiles of the unique values of the non-missing

Dear all, I have a problem with specifying the no. of knots in our function which include gam(). I last worked with this in mid September but since then I have reinstalled R and Simon Wood's library(mgcv), which he has changed since then. The statistician (and good R-coder) with whom I co-operate is now unfortunately overloaded with teaching, and I'm in the sprut of my thesis.... I

Dear List, I'm using gam in a multiple imputation framework -- specifying the knot locations, and saving the results of multiple models, each of which is fit with slightly different data (because some of it is predicted when missing). In MI, coefficients from multiple models are averaged, as are variance-covariance matrices. VCV's get an additional correction to account for how

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

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

Dear all, Following the help from gam(mgcv) help page, i tried to analyze my dataset with all the default arguments. Unfortunately, it can't be run successfully. I list the errors below. #m.gam<-gam(mark~s(x,y)+s(lstday2004)+s(slope)+s(ndvi2004)+s(elevation)+s(disbinary),family=binomial(logit),data=point)

hi I want to choose proper knot for the following formula formula = y~ s(x1) + s(x2) + s(x3) + s(x4) + s(x5) + s(x6) +s(x7) + s(x8) gam(fromula,data=dat) if i run the error is Error in smooth.construct.tp.smooth.spec(object, dk$data, dk$knots) : A term has fewer unique covariate combinations than specified maximum degrees of freedom how to find k and rectify this error ----- Thanks in

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

Hi R-users, I'm using R 2.11.1, mgcv 1.6-2 to fit a generalized additive mixed model. I'm new to this package...and just got more and more problems... 1. Can I include correlation and/or random effect into gam( ) also? or only gamm( ) could be used? 2. I want to estimate the smoothing function s(x) under each level of treatment. i.e. different s(x) in each level of treatment. shall I

Hello I'm using function gam from package mgcv to fit splines. ?When I try to make a prediction slightly beyond the original 'x' range, I get this error: > A = runif(50,1,149) > B = sqrt(A) + rnorm(50) > range(A) [1] 3.289136 145.342961 > > > fit1 = gam(B ~ s(A, bs="ps"), outer.ok=TRUE) > predict(fit1, newdata=data.frame(A=149.9), outer.ok=TRUE) Error

Hi all, My question concerns 2 error messages; one in the gam package and one in the mgcv package (see below). I have read help files and Chambers and Hastie book but am failing to understand how I can solve this problem. Could you please tell me what I must adjust so that the command does not generate error message? I am trying to achieve model selection for a GAM which is required for

Dear listers, I'm using gam(from mgcv) for semi-parametric regression on small and noisy datasets(10 to 200 observations), and facing a problem of overfitting. According to the book(Simon N. Wood / Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R), it is suggested to avoid overfitting by inflating the effective degrees of freedom in GCV evaluation with increased "gamma"

Hi, I have been trying to fit an un-penalised gam in mgcv (in order to get more reliable p-values for hypothesis testing), but I am struggling to get the model to fit sucessfully when I add in a te() interaction. The model I am trying to fit is: gam(count~ s(x1, bs = "ts", k = 4, fx = TRUE) + s(x2, bs = "ts", k = 4, fx = TRUE) + te(x2, x3, bs =

Hello, I have a question. Suppose that I have a function to estimate with gam (in the mgcv package), y=s(x1)+s(x2)+XB where X is a vector of exogenous variables and x1 and x2 are explanatory variables assumed parametric linear functions of X and other exogenous variables Z. Is there a way to evaluate this equation with gam, allowing for endogeneity? If not, is there another

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

I am trying to compare and contrast the smoothing in the {mgcv} version of gam vs. the {gam} version of gam but I get a strange side effects when I try to alternate calls to these routines, even though I detach and unload namespaces. Specifically when I start up R the following code runs successfully until the last line i.e. plot(g4,se=TRUE) when I get "Error in dim(data) <- dim :

Hi all, I need some solution in the following problem. The following error appears when i use "mgcv" package for implementing GAM. But the same formula works fine in "gam" package. > model.gam <- gam(formula = RES ~ > CAT01+s(NUM01,5)+CAT02+CAT03+s(NUM02,5)+CAT04+ + CAT05+s(NUM03,5)+CAT06+CAT07+s(NUM04,5)+CAT08+s(NUM05,5)+CAT09+ +

Sometimes, for specific models, I get this error from predict.gam in library mgcv: Error in complete.cases(object) : negative length vectors are not allowed Here's an example: model.calibrate <- gam(meansalesw ~ s(tscore,bs="cs",k=4), data=toplot, weights=weight, gam.method="perf.magic") > test <- predict(model.calibrate,newdata) Error in

Hi, I have a set of measurements that are made on a daily basis over many years. I would like to produce a *non-parametric* smooth of these data to estimate the seasonal cycle - to achieve this, I have been using the cyclic cubic splines from the mgcv package. This works superbly in most situations, but not all. The problem is that for various practical reasons the data is not available all year

Hallo I need some help with the output provided by gam.check after a gam fit (using the package mgcv). To give a brief description of my data, I have claims: a vector of values, which include NA's and one large negative value - otherwise all positive (55 values in total that are not NA). origin: a factor with 10 levels j : taking the values 1, 2, ...., 10 I have fitted a gam, with: >