similar to: Cubic splines in package "mgcv"

R-users E-mail: r-help@r-project.org My understanding is that package "mgcv" is based on "Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R (by Simon N. Wood)". On the page 126 of this book, eq(3.4) looks a quartic equation with respect to "x", not a cubic equation. I am wondering if all routines which uses cubic splines in mgcv are based on this quartic

Dear R users (r-help@r-project.org), The definition of AIC (Akaike information criterion) for normal error models has just been changed. Please refer to the paper below on this matter. Eq.(22) is the new definition. The essential part is RSS(n+q+1)/(n-q-3); it is close to GCV. The paper is temporarily available at the "Papers In Press" place. Kunio Takezawa(2012): A Revision of

Hi All, What do you consider to be the best book(reference) on nonparametric regression? I am currently reading the book of Kunio Takezawa(2006): "Introduction to nonparametric regression". Is the book of Hardle(1990): "Applied nonparametric regression" better? or maybe another book? This is off topic, but most of the books is using R or S-plus. Thanks Hennie

Hi, I'm responding to a post about finding roots of a cubic or quartic equation non-iteratively. One obviously could create functions using the explicit algebraic solutions. One post on the subject noted that the square-roots in those solutions also require iteration, and one post claimed iterative solutions are more accurate than the explicit solutions. This post, however, is about

R-users E-mail: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Hi! I would like to produce DLL files to be linked to R objects on Windows98SE. The source files are written in Fortran77. I input the command below on R console. Rcmd SHLIB aaa.f The result is: Error: syntax error Does this mean that "Rcmd SHLIB aaa.f" contains symtax error, or "aaa.f" contains it? Or do I need to do

R-users E-mail: r-help@r-project.org Hi! R-users. I am just wondering what the definition of "dffits" in R language is. Let me show you an simple example. function() { library(MASS) xx <- c(1,2,3,4,5) yy <- c(1,3,4,2,4) data1 <- data.frame(x=xx, y=yy) lm.out <- lm(y~., data=data1, x=T) lev1 <- lm.influence(lm.out)$hat sig1 <-

R-users E-mail: r-help@r-project.org I have a quenstion on "gam()" in "gam" package. The help of gam() says: 'gam' uses the _backfitting algorithm_ to combine different smoothing or fitting methods. On the other hand, lm.wfit(), which is a routine of gam.fit() contains: z <- .Fortran("dqrls", qr = x * wts, n = n, p = p, y = y *

Hi all! I'm getting a model fit from glm() (a binary logistic regression fit, but I don't think that's important) for a formula that contains powers of the explanatory variable up to fourth. So the fit looks something like this (typing into mail; the actual fit code is complicated because it involves step-down and so forth): x_sq <- x * x x_cb <- x * x * x x_qt <- x * x * x

To R-helpers, R offers the polyroot function for solving mentioned equations iteratively. However, Dr Math and Mathworld (and other places) show in detail how to solve mentioned equations non-iteratively. Do implementations for R that are non-iterative and that solve mentioned equations exists? Regards, Mads Jeppe

R-users E-mail: r-help@r-project.org I have a quenstion on "gam()" in "gam" package. The help of gam() says: 'gam' uses the _backfitting algorithm_ to combine different smoothing or fitting methods. On the other hand, lm.wfit(), which is a routine of gam.fit() contains: z <- .Fortran("dqrls", qr = x * wts, n = n, p = p, y = y *

R users E-mail: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch I really appreciate information from Dr. Ligges and Dr. Wang. I managed to create DLL files by MinGW and use them as subroutines on R. Thank you very much again. ******** E-mail: takezawa at affrc.go.jp ******** ***** http://cse.naro.affrc.go.jp/takezawa/patent-e.html *****

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]]

mgcv 1.4 is now on CRAN. It includes new features to allow mgcv::gam to fit almost any (quadratically) penalized GLM, plus some extra smoother classes. New gam features ------------------------- * Linear functionals of smooths can be included in the gam linear predictor, allowing, e.g., functional generalized linear models/signal regression, smooths of interval data, etc. * The parametric

mgcv 1.4 is now on CRAN. It includes new features to allow mgcv::gam to fit almost any (quadratically) penalized GLM, plus some extra smoother classes. New gam features ------------------------- * Linear functionals of smooths can be included in the gam linear predictor, allowing, e.g., functional generalized linear models/signal regression, smooths of interval data, etc. * The parametric

Hello everyone,          Dr. wood told me that I can adapting his example to force cubic spline to pass through certain point.          I still have no idea how to achieve this. Suppose we want to force the cubic spline to pass (1,1), how can I achieve this by adapting the following code? # Penalized example: monotonic penalized regression spline ..... # Generate data from a monotonic truth.

Which function implements the piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation? I am looking for equivalent of matlab's interp1 with the method = 'pchip' Here is the reference http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/interp1.html& -- View this message in context:

mgcv 1.5-0 is now on CRAN. Main changes are: * REML and ML smoothness selection are now available. * A Tweedie family has been added. * `gam.method' has been replaced (see arguments `method' and `optimizer' for `gam') For other changes see the changeLog. Simon -- > Simon Wood, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY UK > +44 1225 386603

mgcv 1.5-0 is now on CRAN. Main changes are: * REML and ML smoothness selection are now available. * A Tweedie family has been added. * `gam.method' has been replaced (see arguments `method' and `optimizer' for `gam') For other changes see the changeLog. Simon -- > Simon Wood, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY UK > +44 1225 386603

Hello R-list. I am a "long time listener - first time caller" who has been using R in research and graduate teaching for over 5 years. I hope that my question is simple but not too foolish. I've looked through the FAQ and searched the R site mail list with some close hits but no direct answers, so... I would like to estimate QAIC (and QAICc) for a glm fit using the

The plots look reasonable to me. The plot of residuals against linear predictor always looks scary when many of the fitted values are very close to zero, so I tend to look at residuals against sqrt(fitted) in such cases. I don't think that the presence of the zero curve is a reason to reject the model --- it's easy to produce such plots by fitting a completely correct model to simulated