gam.check package:mgcv R Documentation _S_o_m_e _d_i_a_g_n_o_s_t_i_c_s _f_o_r _a _f_i_t_t_e_d _g_a_m _m_o_d_e_l _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n: Takes a fitted 'gam' object produced by 'gam()' and produces some diagnostic information about the fitting procedure and results. The default is to produce 4 residual plots, and some information about the convergence of the smoothness selection optimization. _U_s_a_g_e: gam.check(b) _A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s: b: a fitted 'gam' object as produced by 'gam()'. _D_e_t_a_i_l_s: This function plots 4 standard diagnostic plots, and some other convergence diagnostics. Usually the 4 plots are various residual plots. The printed information relates to the optimization used to select smoothing parameters. For the default optimization methods the information is summarized in a readable way, but for other optimization methods, whatever is returned by way of convergence diagnostics is simply printed. _A_u_t_h_o_r(_s): Simon N. Wood simon.wood@r-project.org _R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s: Wood S.N. (2006) Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press. _S_e_e _A_l_s_o: 'choose.k', 'gam', 'mgcv', 'magic' _E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s: library(mgcv) set.seed(0) dat <- gamSim(1,n=200) b<-gam(y~s(x0)+s(x1)+s(x2)+s(x3),data=dat) plot(b,pages=1) gam.check(b)