On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:51 +0200, Lucas Holland wrote:
Hey all,
I'm using the gam() function inside the mgcv package to fit a
penalised spline to some data. However, I don't quite understand what
exactly the intercept it includes by default is / how to interpret
it.
Ideally I'd like to understand what the intercept is in terms of the
B-Spline and/or truncated power series basis representation.
It is the mean of the response:
library(mgcv)
set.seed(2) ## simulate some data...
dat - gamSim(1, n=400, dist=normal, scale=2)
#Gu Wahba 4 term additive model
b - gam(y ~ s(x2), data = dat)
coef(b)[1]
(Intercept)
7.833279
with(dat, mean(y))
[1] 7.833279
b2 - gam(y ~ s(x0) + s(x1) + s(x2) + s(x3), data = dat)
coef(b2)[1]
(Intercept)
7.833279
In models with parametric factor terms what the intercept is depends on
the contrasts used - the default in R would represent the mean of the
response for the reference level(s) of factor terms in the model.
The intercept is separates from the penalised spline terms in the model.
HTH
G
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