[Rd] Numerics behind splineDesign

[Bert Gunter]

Thanks Peter.

So it was I who was being too "hasty." (heh-heh).*

-- Bert

*Yes, it was bad once. So twice makes it ... what, pathetic?


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 1, 2012, at 18:03 , Bert Gunter wrote:
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>> Inline...
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>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 15:46 , Bert Gunter wrote:
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>>>>> Well, I would first check the references given in the Help file!.
>>>>> That's what they're for, no?  Hastie's book is likely to more complete
>>>>> on the algebra, I think.
>>>
>>> How embarrassing... the help files do cite the white book (only), and
>>> I did check it of course, but it has no more details on how the basis
>>> functions are computed than does the help file itself, and so I must
>>> have forgotten about it when writing my email. Still, my apologies for
>>> the confusion.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "Hastie's book", though?
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>> Ummm...  The following appears in the  ?bs man page. Why do you not
>> see it? Are you perhaps being too "hasty" in your reading (heh-heh)?
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>> References
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>> Hastie, T. J. (1992) Generalized additive models. Chapter 7 of
>> Statistical Models in S eds J. M. Chambers and T. J. Hastie, Wadsworth
>> & Brooks/Cole.
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> It's not Hastie's book, though.... It's his chapter in a book edited by Chambers and Hastie.
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