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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
