gamObject {mgcv} | R Documentation |
A fitted GAM object returned by function gam
and of class
"gam"
inheriting from classes "glm"
and "lm"
. Method
functions anova
, logLik
, influence
, plot
,
predict
, print
, residuals
and summary
exist for
this class.
All compulsory elements of "glm"
and "lm"
objects are present,
but the fitting method for a GAM is different to a linear model or GLM, so
that the elements relating to the QR decomposition of the model matrix are
absent.
A gam
object has the following elements:
aic |
AIC of the fitted model: bear in mind that the degrees of freedom used to calculate this are the effective degrees of freedom of the model, and the likelihood is evaluated at the maximum of the penalized likelihood in most cases, not at the MLE. |
assign |
Array whose elements indicate which model term (listed in
pterms ) each parameter relates to: applies only to non-smooth terms. |
boundary |
did parameters end up at boundary of parameter space? |
call |
the matched call (allows update to be used with gam objects, for example). |
coefficients |
the coefficients of the fitted model. Parametric coefficients are first, followed by coefficients for each spline term in turn. |
control |
the gam control list used in the fit. |
converged |
indicates whether or not the iterative fitting method converged. |
data |
the original supplied data argument (for class "glm" compatibility). |
deviance |
model deviance (not penalized deviance). |
df.null |
null degrees of freedom. |
df.residual |
effective residual degrees of freedom of the model. |
edf |
estimated degrees of freedom for each model parameter. Penalization means that many of these are less than 1. |
family |
family object specifying distribution and link used. |
fit.method |
Character string describing the multiple GCV/UBRE smoothing parameter estimation method used. |
fitted.values |
fitted model predictions of expected value for each datum. |
formula |
the model formula. |
full.formula |
the model formula with each smooth term fully expanded and with option arguments given explicitly (i.e. not with reference to other variables) - useful for later prediction from the model. |
gcv.ubre |
The minimized GCV or UBRE score. |
hat |
array of elements from the leading diagonal of the `hat' (or `influence') matrix. Same length as response data vector. |
iter |
number of iterations of P-IRLS taken to get convergence. |
linear.predictors |
fitted model prediction of link function of expected value for each datum. |
method |
One of "GCV" or "UBRE" , depending on the fitting
criterion used. |
mgcv.conv |
A list of convergence diagnostics relating to the
"mgcv" or "magic" parts of smoothing
parameter estimation - this will not be very meaningful for pure "outer"
estimation of smoothing parameters. mgcv.conv differs for method "magic" and "mgcv" . Here is
the "mgcv" version:
g above - i.e. the leading diagonal of the Hessian.TRUE if the second smoothing parameter guess improved the GCV/UBRE score.TRUE if the algorithm terminated by failing to improve the GCV/UBRE score rather than by `converging'.
Not necessarily a problem, but check the above derivative information quite carefully.In the case of "magic" the items are:
TRUE is multiple GCV/UBRE converged by meeting
convergence criteria. FALSE if method stopped with a steepest descent step
failure. |
min.edf |
Minimum possible degrees of freedom for whole model. |
model |
model frame containing all variables needed in original model fit. |
na.action |
The na.action used in fitting. |
nsdf |
number of parametric, non-smooth, model terms including the intercept. |
null.deviance |
deviance for single parameter model. |
offset |
model offset. |
outer.info |
If `outer' iteration has been used to fit the model (see
gam.method ) then this is present and contains whatever was
returned by the optimization routine used (currently nlm or optim ). |
prior.weights |
prior weights on observations. |
pterms |
terms object for strictly parametric part of model. |
rank |
apparent rank of fitted model. |
residuals |
the working residuals for the fitted model. |
sig2 |
estimated or supplied variance/scale parameter. |
smooth |
list of smooth objects, containing the basis information for each term in the
model formula in the order in which they appear. These smooth objects are what gets returned by
the smooth.construct objects. |
sp |
smoothing parameter for each smooth. |
terms |
terms object of model model frame. |
Vp |
estimated covariance matrix for the parameters. This is a Bayesian posterior covariance matrix that results from adopting a particular Bayesian model of the smoothing process. Paricularly useful for creating credible/confidence intervals. |
Ve |
frequentist estimated covariance matrix for the parameter estimators. Particularly useful for testing whether terms are zero. Not so useful for CI's as smooths are usually biased. |
weights |
final weights used in IRLS iteration. |
y |
response data. |
This model object is different to that described in Chambers and Hastie (1993) in order to allow smoothing parameter estimation etc.
Simon N. Wood simon.wood@r-project.org
Key References on this implementation:
Wood, S.N. (2000) Modelling and Smoothing Parameter Estimation with Multiple Quadratic Penalties. J.R.Statist.Soc.B 62(2):413-428
Wood, S.N. (2003) Thin plate regression splines. J.R.Statist.Soc.B 65(1):95-114
Wood, S.N. (in press) Stable and efficient multiple smoothing parameter estimation for generalized additive models. J. Amer. Statist. Ass.
Wood, S.N. (2004) On confidence intervals for GAMs based on penalized regression splines. Technical Report 04-12 Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow.
Wood, S.N. (2004) Low rank scale invariant tensor product smooths for generalized additive mixed models. Technical Report 04-13 Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow.
Key Reference on GAMs and related models:
Hastie (1993) in Chambers and Hastie (1993) Statistical Models in S. Chapman and Hall.
Hastie and Tibshirani (1990) Generalized Additive Models. Chapman and Hall.
Wahba (1990) Spline Models of Observational Data. SIAM