... I took the original poster's word for it that there were no citations in the help files (sorry, that got snipped from my reply because Gmane was complaining ... " I notice that the help pages for these functions don't seem to have any citations.") Now that I took 30 seconds to go back and look for myself, there *is* a citation -- exactly the same one I gave ...
On 12-07-31 09:46 AM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Well, I would first check the references given in the Help file!. > That's what they're for, no? Hastie's book is likely to more complete > on the algebra, I think. > > You might also be interested in the relevant chapters of Friedman, > Hastie, et. al "The Elements of Statistical Learning Theory," which > might be a gentler exposition of the math. > > Of course, the code (or a suitable exposition of it, which may not > exist) is the ultimate reference. > > -- Bert > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Nathaniel Smith <njs <at> pobox.com> writes: >> >>> I find myself needing to be able to reproduce the spline bases that R >>> computes when using ns() and bs() -- but without using R. Before I go >>> diving headfirst into the C code in >>> ./src/library/splines/src/splines.c, are there any simpler references >>> anyone might recommend? >> >> [snip] >> >> Some of this stuff *might* be in the "White Book" (Statistical >> Models in S, ed Chambers & Hastie (esp. chapter 7?) >> >> Ben Bolker >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
