Welcome to CSI 970

Generalized Additive Models

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We will use the book Generalized Additive Models, by Hastie and Tibshirani, beginning in Chapter 6. Over the course of the semester each participant will give one or more lectures. The lectures will incorporate live sessions with S-Plus, Matlab, or other software.

You can download the PostScript versions of the lectures as they are available.

The schedule is:

  1. February 2 and 9
    Shan-Chuan Li:
    Sections 6.1 -- 6.6, Scoring; use of the S-Plus function gam.
  2. February 9 and 16
    Dan Carr and John Miller:
    Sections 6.7 -- 6.15, Semiparametric models
  3. Jim Gentle:
    Chapter 7, Response transformation models (ACE, Box-Cox, AVAS)
  4. Charles Perry and Jim Burt:
    Chapter 8, Other settings
  5. Kwang-Su Yang and Corbin Fauntleroy:
    Chapter 9, Other topics