Modelling and smoothing parameter estimation with multiple quadratic penalties

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 413-428

  Wood, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generalized additive models; Generalized cross validation; Generalized ridge regression; Model selection; Multiple smoothing parameters; Non linear modelling; Penalized likelihood; Penalized regression splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364945     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00240     Document Type: Article

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