Dear All,

I've been searching for appropriate codes to compute the rate of change and the 
curvature of  nonparametric regression model whish was denoted by a smooth 
function but unfortunately don't manage to do it. I presume that such 
characteristics from a smooth curve can be determined by the first and second 
derivative operators.

The following are the example of fitting a nonparametric regression model via 
smoothing spline function from the Help file in R.

#######################################################
attach(cars)
plot(speed, dist, main = "data(cars)  &  smoothing splines")
cars.spl <- smooth.spline(speed, dist)
lines(cars.spl, col = "blue")
lines(smooth.spline(speed, dist, df=10), lty=2, col = "red")
legend(5,120,c(paste("default [C.V.] => df =",round(cars.spl$df,1)),"s( * , df 
= 10)"), col = c("blue","red"), lty = 1:2, bg='bisque')
detach()

#######################################################


Could someone please advice me the appropriate way to determine such 
derivatives on the curves which were fitted by the function above and would 
like to thank you in advance.

Cheers
Fir 





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