[R] Where is gam?
Anantha Prasad/NE/USDAFS
aprasad at fs.fed.us
Tue Oct 3 16:24:10 CEST 2000
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> One reason that gam is not there is that some of us think it
> is much over-sold as a technique and the way it is done in S is poorly
> implemented.
Could you please clarify.... there has been a lot of interest in gam
recently in predicting species distribution and environmental management
(there is in fact a workshop scheduled in Switzerland next year on GLM/GAM
modelling). So many of us would be very interested to learn about its
shortcomings (reason why you think it is oversold technique)...and also
what aspects of it are poorly implemented in S.
If you shed some light on this, it will be of great help to us.
Thanks much.
Prasad
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Peter Dalgaard
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pd at blueberry.kub
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10/03/00 10:20
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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > I noticed that there is no generalised additive model functions in R
> > (1.1.1) ... is there a package that implements them?
..
> If you just want additive models there is a much better
> function bruto in package MDA.
>
> One reason that gam is not there is that some of us think it
> is much over-sold as a technique and the way it is done in S is poorly
> implemented.
Also, note that the gss package by Chong Gu has much the same
objective as gam().
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