[R] GAMs under R?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Stephen R. Laniel wrote:

> I was just now surprised to note that functions to go generalized additive
> models don't appear to exist under R 1.000.  In particular, the gam() and
> loess() functions aren't there.  Are they hidden somewhere and I just
> haven't noticed?

Lots of people have pointed out loess().  For many purposes you can use
regression splines (ns() and bs() in library(splines)) and glm() to get
smooth functions of predictors.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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