I have a two part question one about statistical theory and the other about implementations in R. Thank you for all help in advance.
(1) Am I correct in understanding that Heteroscedasticity is a problem for Generalized Additive Models as it is for standard linear models? I am asking particularly about the GAMs as implemented in the mgcv package. Based upon my online search it seems that some forms of penalized splines can address heteroscedasticity while others cannot and I'm not sure what is true of the methods used in mgcv. (2) Assuming that heteroscedasticity is a problem for the mgcv GAMs, can anyone recommend a good test implementation? I am familiar with the ncvTest method implemented in the car package but that applies only to lms. Thank you, Collin Lynch. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.