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Hi all R users ! I'm using gamm function from Simon Wood's mgcv package, to fit a spatial regression Generalized Additive Mixed Model, as covariates I have the geographical longitude and latitude locations of indexed data. I include a random effect for each district (dist) so the code is fit <- gamm(y~s(lon,lat,bs="tp", m=2)+offset(log(exp.)), random=list(dist=~1),

In Dr. Wood's book on GAM, he suggests in section 4.1.6 that it might be useful to shrink a single smooth by adding S=S+epsilon*I to the penalty matrix S. The context was the need to be able to shrink the term to zero if appropriate. I'd like to do this in order to shrink the coefficients towards zero (irrespective of the penalty for "wiggliness") - but not necessarily all the

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew how to work out the number of knots that should be applied to each variable when using gams in the mgcv library? Any help or references would be much appreciated. Thanks Kathryn Baldwin

re: Cubic splines in package "mgcv" I don't have access to Gu (2002) but clearly the function R(x,z) defined on p126 of Simon Wood's book is piecewise quartic, not piecewise cubic. Like Kunio Takezawa (below) I was puzzled by the word "cubic" on p126. As Simon Wood writes, this basis is not actually used by mgcv when specifying bs="cr". Maybe the point is

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

Hello, I have been trying to find out whether it is possible to use more than one offset in a gam (in mgcv). The reason I would like to do this is to 1) account for area surveyed in a Poisson model of sightings of porpoises within defined grid cells (each cell has a slightly different area) and 2) account for detection probability within each grid cell (some grid cells are further away from the

For summary(GAM) in the mgcv package smooth the degrees of freedom for the F value for test of smooth terms are the rank of covariance matrix of \hat{beta} and the residuals df. I've noticed that in a lot of GAMs I've fit the rank of the covariance turns out to be 9. In Simon Wood's book, the rank of covariance matrix is usually either 9 or 99 (pages 239-230 and 259). Can anyone

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

Hi,everyone, I am studying the generalized additive model and employ the package 'mgcv' developed by professor Wood. However,I can not understand the example listed in check.in function. For example, library(mgcv) set.seed(1) dat <- gamSim(1,n=400,scale=2) ## fit a GAM with quite low `k' b<-gam(y~s(x0,k=6)+s(x1,k=6)+s(x2,k=6)+s(x3,k=6),data=dat) plot(b,pages=1,residuals=TRUE)

Dear community, I encountered a very disturbing phenomenon today: When I try to fit any gam() with mgcv R aborts. I could not find any post regarding this in google, which mades in even more strange. I am using the latest Ubuntu, latest R and latest mgcv everything up to date. The crash occured too with the last mgcv 1.7-11. This is the output from the R shell: <pre> R version 2.14.0

Hi! I'm learning mgcv, and reading Simon Wood's book on GAMs, as recommended to me earlier by some folks on this list. I've run into a question to which I can't find the answer in his book, so I'm hoping somebody here knows. My outcome variable is binary, so I'm doing a binomial fit with gam(). I have five independent variables, all continuous, all uniformly

Dear all, I run the GAMs (generalized additive models) in gam(mgcv) using the following codes. m.gam <-gam(mark~s(x)+s(y)+s(lstday2004)+s(ndvi2004)+s(slope)+s(elevation)+disbinary,family=binomial(logit),data=point) And two repeated warnings appeared. Warnings$B!'(B 1: In gam.fit(G, family = G$family, control = control, gamma = gamma, ... : Algorithm did not converge 2: In gam.fit(G,

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)

Dear users, I am trying to show the equation (including coefficients from the model estimates) for a gam model but do not understand how to. Slide 7 from one of the authors presentations (gam-theory.pdf URL: http://people.bath.ac.uk/sw283/mgcv/) shows a general equation log{E(yi )} = ?+ ?xi + f (zi ) . What I would like to do is put my model coefficients and present the equation used. I am an

Hi Paul, Take a look at gam() from package mgcv (gam = generalized additive models), maybe this will help you. GAMs can work with other distributions as well. Generalized additive models consist of a random component, an additive component, and a link function relating these two components. The response Y, the random component, is assumed to have a density in the exponential family. I am not sure

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

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 list, I'm working with gamm models of this sort, using Simon Wood's mgcv library: gm<- gamm(Z~te(x,y),data=DATA,random=list(Group=~1)) gm1<-gamm(Z~te(x,y,by=Factor)+Factor,data=DATA,random=list(Group=~1)) with a dataset of about 70000 rows and 110 levels for Group in order to test whether tensor product smooths vary across factor levels. I was wondering if comparing those two

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

i read a book from WOOD, there's an example which is talking about the pollutant. library(gamair) library(mgcv) y<-gam(death~s(time,bs="cr",k=200)+s(pm10median,bs="cr")+s(so2median,bs="cr")+s(o3median,bs="cr")+s(tmpd,bs="cr"),data=chicago,family=Possion) lag.sum<-function(a,10,11) {n<-length(a) b<-rep(0,n-11) for(i in 0:(11-10))