The most important parameter of the iterated bias reduction is
\(k\) the
number of
iterationsr. Usually this parameter is unknown and is
chosen from the search grid K to minimize the criterion (GCV,
AIC, AICc, BIC or gMDL).
The user must choose the pilot smoother
(kernel "k", thin plate splines "tps" or Duchon splines "ds")
plus the values of bandwidths (kernel)
or \(\lambda\) thin plate splines). As the choice of these raw
values depend on each particular dataset, one
can rely on effective degrees of freedom or default values given as degree of
freedom, see argument df of the main function ibr.
Index of functions to be used by end user:
ibr: Iterative bias reduction smoothing
plot.ibr: Plot diagnostic for an ibr object
predict.ibr: Predicted values using iterative bias reduction
smoothers
forward: Variable selection for ibr (forward method)
print.summary.ibr: Printing iterative bias reduction summaries
summary.ibr: Summarizing iterative bias reduction fits