Hi Kathryn, I very warmly recommend Simon Wood's book on the subject. Here is a link to the book information on Amazon (about which no recommendation should be inferred!)
http://www.amazon.com/Generalized-Additive-Models-Statistical-Science/dp/1584884746/sr=8-2/qid=1164758688/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-6675834-9672605?ie=UTF8&s=books Cheers Andrew On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:40:20AM +1300, Kathryn Baldwin wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
