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I'm using R 1.7.0 on linux. With this version of R the package modreg is automatically loaded at start of session. However attempting to use predict.smooth.spline() produces Error: couldn't find function predict.smooth.spline. The function smooth.spline() is OK. What am I missing? ====================================== I.White ICAPB, University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories, West

Dear all, I am trying to understand the output from a binomial lmer object and why the scaling of a fixed effect changes the variance components. In the model p2rec is cbind(number recruits2,number recruits 1), Pop is populations (five level factor) and ja is year (covariate running from 1955-2004). I.e. biologically I am interested to see how the proportion of recruits from the second

Hello everone,            Anyone who knows how to force a cubic smoothing spline to pass through a particular point?            I found on website  someone said that we can use "cobs package" to force the spline pass through certain points or impose shape           constraints (increasing, decreasing). However,  this package is using  B-spline and can only do linear and quadratic

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.

BUG IN SPLINE()? Version R-1.0.1, system i486,linux If the spline(x,y,method="natural") function is given values outside the range of the data, it does not give a warning. Moreover, the extrapolated value reported is not the ordinate of the natural spline defined by (x,y). Example. Let x <- c(2,5,8,10) and y <- c(1.2266,-1.7606,-0.5051,1.0390). Then interpolate/extrapolate with

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

Apologies if this is this too obscure for R-help. In package splines, ns(x,,knots,intercept=TRUE) produces an n by K+2 matrix N, the values of K+2 basis functions for the natural splines with K (internal) knots, evaluated at x. It does this by first generating an n by K+4 matrix B of unconstrained splines, then postmultiplying B by H, a K+4 by K+2 representation of the nullspace of C (2 by K+4),

Can anyone explain why with latest version of R (2.0.1) on FC3, installed from R-2.0.1-0.fdr.2.fc3.i386.rpm, update.packages() produces the message /usr/lib/R/bin/Rcmd exec: INSTALL: not found. Indeed /usr/lib/R/bin seems to lack various shell scripts (INSTALL, REMOVE, etc). ====================================== I.White University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories, West Mains Road Edinburgh

Hi, all I am trying to get the basis matrix and penalty matrix for natural cubic splines. In the "splines" package of R,"ns" can generate the B-spline basis matrix for a natural cubic spline. How can I get the basis matrix and penalty matrix for natural cubic spline. Thanks a lot! Lee [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hallo, I'm facing a problem and I would really appreciate your support. I have to translate some Matalb code in R that I don't know very well but I would like to. I have to interpolate 5 point with a cubic spline function and then I expect my function returns the Y value as output a specific X value inside the evaluation range. Let's suppose that: 1- *X = [-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]* 2

Hello,   does anyone have an example on how to use restricted cubic splines function rcs within survfit.cph, if cph (Cox Proportional Hazard Regression) was done with restricted cubic splines (which I made to work)? Thank you. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

(corrected version of previous posting) I fit a GAM to turtle growth data following methods in Limpus & Chaloupka 1997 (http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/149/m149p023.pdf). I want to obtain figures similar to Fig 3 c & f in Limpus & Chaloupka (1997), which according to the figure legend are "expected size-at-age functions" obtained by numerically integrating

I have used LME to fit a mixed effects model on my data. The data has 274 subjects with 1 to 6 observations per subject. Time is not linearly associated with the outcome, so I used ns to fit a natural cubic spline with 3 auto knots. Subject and the natural cubic time of spline are both treated as random effects. This model has run without any problem, but now I would like to plot trajectories for

I'm trying to use R to determine the quality of a cubic Bezier curve approximation of an elliptical arc. I know the four control points and I want to compute (x,y) coordinates of many points on the curve. I can't find anything in either the base distribution or CRAN that does this; all the spline-related packages seem to be about *fitting* piecewise Bezier curves to a data set.

Hi, I have generated a profile likelihood for a parameter (x) and am trying to get 95% confidence limits by calculating the two points where the log likelihood (LogL) is 2 units less than the maximum LogL. I would like to do this by linear interpolation and so I have been trying to use the function approxfun which allows me to get a function to calculate LogL for any value of x within

Greetings, I would like to use a cubic spline or smoother to model the fixed effects within nlme. So far the only smoother I have been able to get to run successfully in nlme is smooth(). I tried smooth.spline: fixed=list(lKa~1,lCL~smooth.spline(BSA, df=3)) the error I got was the following. Error in model.frame(formula, rownames, variables, varnames, extras, extranames, : invalid

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]]

Hi Users, I want to fit the maximums of a data series with a cubic spline. How do I go about this in R. I failed to figure out how I can use the mgcv library to do this. Thanks ---------------------------- ZABLONE

Hello,        Dr. Simon Wood told me how to force a cubic spline passing through a point. The code is as following. Anyone  who knows how I can change the code to force the first derivative to be certain value. For example, the first derivative of the constrained cubic spline equals 2 at point (0, 0.6).        I really appreciate your help!        Thanks!                 Best             Victor   

Dear Thomas, I want to use evaluate effect of Age using restricted cubic form in the FGR function as Fgr.crr <- FGR(Hist(time, event) ~ rcs(Age_years), data=dat) It provides error. " Error in parse(text = termtext, keep.source = FALSE): .... 1: response ~ rcs(Age_years Do I need to change any of the R code? Regards Amalraj Raja The University of Aberdeen is a charity