If you can't get hold of the book, try appendix A of http://www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~sw283/simon/papers/psm.pdf -- what's described there is the "cr" basis
best, Simon On Tuesday 24 March 2009 05:01, oliviax wrote: > Thanks for Andrew Robinson's suggestion. > > I am sorry that I have been looking for the book Wood (2006) "Generalized > Additive Models: Introduction with R" for a long time in my univerity and > book stores, but I failed to find one. I think it may take a long time to > buy one from the Internet, and we are required to submit the master thesis > soon... > > Could any one help me if you know other references or have knowledge about > this?? > > I will be very very thankful. > > Sincerely yours, > Olivia > > oliviax wrote: > > I am writing my thesis with the function gam(), with the package {mgcv}. > > > > My command is: gam(y~s(x1,bs="cr")+s(x2, bs="cr")). > > > > I need help to know what are the default basis funcitons for gam. I have > > not found any detailed reference for this. > > > > Can anyone help me with this?? -- > Simon Wood, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY UK > +44 1225 386603 www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~sw283 ______________________________________________ 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.