[R-sig-eco] bootstrapping gam models with multiple explanatory terms

2012-05-03 Thread Basil Iannone
Hello R users, I may be thinking about this all wrong. If I am, please let me know. My question is about bootstrapping gam models. I want to know if there is a way to produce bootstrapped smoothers in a gam model that has more than one significant explanatory term. I know how to achieve this when

Re: [R-sig-eco] bootstrapping gam models with multiple explanatory terms

2012-05-04 Thread Gavin Simpson
Dear Basil, You are describing a non-parametric bootstrap procedure. There is nothing wrong with what you are doing, but the approach you are taking to extract/plot the smooth terms is a little too simplistic and hence you've hit a brick wall. To bootstrap multiple terms, I would have my training