[R] smooth.spline

[hadley wickham]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Roland Rau <roland.rproject at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spencer Graves wrote:
>>
>> I found the first chapter of Paul Dierckx (1993) Curve and Surface Fitting
>> with Splines (Oxford U. Pr.).  Beyond that, I've learned a lot from the
>> 'fda' package and the two companion volumes by Ramsay and Silverman (2006)
>> Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed. and (2002) Applied Functional Data
>> Analysis (both Springer).
>
> If I may add my 2 cents:
> Section 2 ("B-Splines in a Nutshell") in the article listed below, is in my
> opinion, a good and compact outline of B-Splines.
>
>    * Flexible Smoothing with $B$-splines and Penalties
>    * Paul H. C. Eilers, Brian D. Marx
>    * Statistical Science, Vol. 11, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 89-102

And it is (freely) available at:
http://projecteuclid.org/handle/euclid.ss/1038425655

Hadley

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