[R] smoothing splines and degrees of freedom

Steven Shechter sms13+ at pitt.edu
Sat Jun 24 17:35:16 CEST 2006


Hi,
If I set df=2 in my smooth.spline function, is that equivalent to running
a linear regression through my data?  It appears that df=# of data points
gives the interpolating spline and that df = 2 gives the linear
regression, but I just want to confirm this.

Thank you,
Steven



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