R: Minimize GCV or UBRE score of a GAM using ‘outer’ iteration

gam.outer {mgcv}

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Minimize GCV or UBRE score of a GAM using ‘outer’ iteration

Description

Estimation of GAM smoothing parameters is most stable if optimization of the smoothness selection score (GCV, GACV, UBRE/AIC, REML, ML etc) is outer to the penalized iteratively re-weighted least squares scheme used to estimate the model given smoothing parameters.

This routine optimizes a smoothness selection score in this way. Basically the score is evaluated for each trial set of smoothing parameters by estimating the GAM for those smoothing parameters. The score is minimized w.r.t. the parameters numerically, using newton (default), bfgs, optim or nlm. Exact (first and second) derivatives of the score can be used by fitting with gam.fit3. This improves efficiency and reliability relative to relying on finite difference derivatives.

Not normally called directly, but rather a service routine for gam.

Usage

gam.outer(lsp,fscale,family,control,method,optimizer,
          criterion,scale,gamma,G,...)

Arguments

`lsp`	The log smoothing parameters.
`fscale`	Typical scale of the GCV or UBRE/AIC score.
`family`	the model family.
`control`	control argument to pass to `gam.fit` if pure finite differencing is being used.
`method`	method argument to `gam` defining the smoothness criterion to use (but depending on whether or not scale known).
`optimizer`	The argument to `gam` defining the numerical optimization method to use.
`criterion`	Which smoothness selction criterion to use. One of `"UBRE"`, `"GCV"`, `"GACV"`, `"REML"` or `"P-REML"`.
`scale`	Supplied scale parameter. Positive indicates known.
`gamma`	The degree of freedom inflation factor for the GCV/UBRE/AIC score.
`G`	List produced by `mgcv:::gam.setup`, containing most of what's needed to actually fit a GAM.
`...`	other arguments, typically for passing on to `gam.fit3` (ultimately).

Details

See Wood (2008) for full details on `outer iteration'.

Author(s)

Simon N. Wood simon.wood@r-project.org

References

Wood, S.N. (2008) Fast stable direct fitting and smoothness selection for generalized additive models. J.R.Statist.Soc.B 70(3):495-518

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