Thanks Peter. So it was I who was being too "hasty." (heh-heh).*
-- Bert *Yes, it was bad once. So twice makes it ... what, pathetic? On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 18:03 , Bert Gunter wrote: > >> Inline... >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> Thanks everyone for the suggestions. >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 15:46 , 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. >>> >>> How embarrassing... the help files do cite the white book (only), and >>> I did check it of course, but it has no more details on how the basis >>> functions are computed than does the help file itself, and so I must >>> have forgotten about it when writing my email. Still, my apologies for >>> the confusion. >>> >>> I'm not sure what you mean by "Hastie's book", though? >> >> Ummm... The following appears in the ?bs man page. Why do you not >> see it? Are you perhaps being too "hasty" in your reading (heh-heh)? >> >> References >> >> Hastie, T. J. (1992) Generalized additive models. Chapter 7 of >> Statistical Models in S eds J. M. Chambers and T. J. Hastie, Wadsworth >> & Brooks/Cole. > > It's not Hastie's book, though.... It's his chapter in a book edited by > Chambers and Hastie. > > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
