[R] LocFit

[Liaw, Andy]

From: Jacob van Wyk
> 
> I have a question regarding the package LOCFIT of C Loader.
> 
> After fitting a smooth surface (y modeled by two regressors), 
> I can't seem to find a nice way of making a perspective (or 
> other 3d plot). The contours don't look quite so good.
> 
> It is meant to be used as illustration of smoothing to my 
> students in regression analysis.
> 
> Could anybody perhaps assist me in producing a "good" graph 
> in 3d? It probably works in S-Plus, but I am using R.
> 
> (I have tried plot (locfit object, type="persp") on the 
> ethanol dataset
> - but this gives a poor result, with a few warnings.)

Could you elaborate on what `poor result' means?  It doesn't look half bad
to me (except perhaps it needs to be rotated a bit)...

Andy


 
> THANK YOU!.
> Jacob
> 
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> Jacob L van Wyk
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> University of Johannesburg APK
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