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mgcv (version 1.7-4)

GAMs with GCV/AIC/REML smoothness estimation and GAMMs by PQL

Description

Routines for GAMs and other generalized ridge regression with multiple smoothing parameter selection by GCV, REML or UBRE/AIC. Also GAMMs by REML or PQL. Includes a gam() function.

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install.packages('mgcv')

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Version

1.7-4

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Simon Wood

Last Published

March 9th, 2011

Functions in mgcv (1.7-4)

gamObject

Fitted gam object
magic

Stable Multiple Smoothing Parameter Estimation by GCV or UBRE
smooth.construct

Constructor functions for smooth terms in a GAM
gamm

Generalized Additive Mixed Models
concurvity

GAM concurvity measures
s

Defining smooths in GAM formulae
fixDependence

Detect linear dependencies of one matrix on another
Predict.matrix

Prediction methods for smooth terms in a GAM
gam.check

Some diagnostics for a fitted gam model
gam.convergence

GAM convergence and performance issues
logLik.gam

Extract the log likelihood for a fitted GAM
notExp2

Alternative to log parameterization for variance components
smooth.construct.tp.smooth.spec

Penalized thin plate regression splines in GAMs
Tweedie

GAM Tweedie family
in.out

Which of a set of points lie within a polygon defined region
mroot

Smallest square root of matrix
initial.sp

Starting values for multiple smoothing parameter estimation
residuals.gam

Generalized Additive Model residuals
influence.gam

Extract the diagonal of the influence/hat matrix for a GAM
t2

Define alternative tensor product smooths in GAM formulae
model.matrix.gam

Extract model matrix from GAM fit
interpret.gam

Interpret a GAM formula
new.name

Obtain a name for a new variable that is not already in use
mono.con

Monotonicity constraints for a cubic regression spline
magic.post.proc

Auxilliary information from magic fit
print.gam

Print a Generalized Additive Model object.
pdTens

Functions implementing a pdMat class for tensor product smooths
gam.side

Identifiability side conditions for a GAM
place.knots

Automatically place a set of knots evenly through covariate values
ls.size

Size of list elements
polys.plot

Plot geographic regions defined as polygons
mgcv.control

Setting mgcv defaults
ldTweedie

Log Tweedie density evaluation
slanczos

Compute truncated eigen decomposition of a symmetric matrix
smooth.construct.tensor.smooth.spec

Tensor product smoothing constructor
vis.gam

Visualization of GAM objects
choose.k

Basis dimension choice for smooths
gam.vcomp

Report gam smoothness estimates as variance components
gam2objective

Objective functions for GAM smoothing parameter estimation
pdIdnot

Overflow proof pdMat class for multiples of the identity matrix
smoothCon

Prediction/Construction wrapper functions for GAM smooth terms
uniquecombs

find the unique rows in a matrix
step.gam

Alternatives to step.gam
plot.gam

Default GAM plotting
smooth.construct.ps.smooth.spec

P-splines in GAMs
formXtViX

Form component of GAMM covariance matrix
gamSim

Simulate example data for GAMs
columb

Reduced version of Columbus OH crime data
rTweedie

Generate Tweedie random deviates
gam.models

Specifying generalized additive models
sp.vcov

Extract smoothing parameter estimator covariance matrix from (RE)ML GAM fit
smooth.construct.re.smooth.spec

Simple random effects in GAMs
notExp

Functions for better-than-log positive parameterization
vcov.gam

Extract parameter (estimator) covariance matrix from GAM fit
pcls

Penalized Constrained Least Squares Fitting
Predict.matrix.cr.smooth

Predict matrix method functions
gam.outer

Minimize GCV or UBRE score of a GAM using `outer' iteration
mgcv-FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions for package mgcv
rig

Generate inverse Gaussian random deviates
smooth.construct.cr.smooth.spec

Penalized Cubic regression splines in GAMs
tensor.prod.model.matrix

Utility functions for constructing tensor product smooths
smooth.construct.sos.smooth.spec

Splines on the sphere
full.score

GCV/UBRE score for use within nlm
exclude.too.far

Exclude prediction grid points too far from data
smooth.construct.mrf.smooth.spec

Markov Random Field Smooths
bam

Generalized additive models for very large datasets
fix.family.link

Modify families for use in GAM fitting and checking
formula.gam

GAM formula
negbin

GAM negative binomial family
null.space.dimension

The basis of the space of un-penalized functions for a TPRS
pen.edf

Extract the effective degrees of freedom associated with each penalty in a gam fit
predict.gam

Prediction from fitted GAM model
cSplineDes

Evaluate cyclic B spline basis
gam.fit3

P-IRLS GAM estimation with GCV & UBRE/AIC or RE/ML derivative calculation
gam

Generalized additive models with integrated smoothness estimation
anova.gam

Approximate hypothesis tests related to GAM fits
qq.gam

QQ plots for gam model residuals
te

Define tensor product smooths in GAM formulae
mgcv

Multiple Smoothing Parameter Estimation by GCV or UBRE
summary.gam

Summary for a GAM fit
smooth.construct.ds.smooth.spec

Low rank Duchon 1977 splines
mgcv-package

GAMs with GCV/AIC/REML smoothness estimation and GAMMs by REML/PQL
random.effects

Random effects in GAMs
bam.update

Update a strictly additive bam model for new data.
gam.control

Setting GAM fitting defaults
extract.lme.cov

Extract the data covariance matrix from an lme object
gam.fit

GAM P-IRLS estimation with GCV/UBRE smoothness estimation
get.var

Get named variable or evaluate expression from list or data.frame
gam.selection

Generalized Additive Model Selection
linear.functional.terms

Linear functionals of a smooth in GAMs
smooth.construct.ad.smooth.spec

Adaptive smooths in GAMs
smooth.terms

Smooth terms in GAM