Simon, in your recent reply to me, you noted that EDF=1 corresponds to a straight line fit. Does the edf always indicate the polynomial exponent directly? We ask because Hothorn and Everitt said "Roughly, the complexity of a cubic spline is about the same as a polynomial of degree one less than the degrees of freedom." Sorry we attributed the latter to you, by the way. Will
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