[R] mgcv: Smoothing matrix

[Simon Wood]

There's no function for extracting this directly, as almost anything 
that you want to do with the smoother matrix can be done in a much more 
efficient way without computing it explicitly, but here's an example of 
how to compute it explicitly in the unweighted additive case...

library(mgcv)
set.seed(0) ## simulate some data...
dat <- gamSim(1,n=400,dist="normal",scale=2)
b <- gam(y~s(x0)+s(x1)+s(x2)+s(x3),data=dat)

X <- model.matrix(b)
## compute X'(X'X+S)^{-1}X'...
A <- X%*%vcov(b,dispersion=1)%*%t(X)

dA <- influence(b) ## much more efficient if you only need diag(A)
range(dA-diag(A))

On 23/02/12 11:02, Man Zhang wrote:
> Dear All,
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> I would like to extract the smoothing matrix of the fitted GAM, \hat{y} = Sy. I can't seem to find the function or am I missing something?
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> Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated
> Man Zhang
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