I'm guessing you meant "fracpoly" in Stata, which is fractional polynomial smoothing. If that's the case, check out http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakgam/r/.
Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] please help on frag polynoms > > > hi there, > > can anyone help me on the topic of frag polynoms? > > i just heard of a friend of mine, that i could build in a > functioon called fragpoly (he was talking of such a function > in the 'stata' language) in order to improve my process of > finding an optimal linear model. > > instead of trying a vast amount of transformed inputdata to > find the best fit and then step backwards down to e.g. rank 5 > in order to get a smooth curve, i could start right from the > beginning with only very few but therefore very flexible > funktions (litle similar to box-plot) which adopt themselve > automaticaly to an optimal fitt and r-squered. > > can anyone tell me if such a flexible adoptive function also > exists in r+? (i could not find anything on the r+ pages with > these search words). > > waiting desperately for help > joerg > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo> /r-help > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, ...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
