[R] poly() question
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Nov 2 09:49:46 CET 2006
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Besides the primary citation, "Kennedy, W. J. Jr and Gentle, J. E. (1980)
> Statistical Computing Marcel Dekker." (which is $300 and my library doesn't
> have it), is there any other documentation on how to take a poly() object
> and predict "by hand" new data?
Yes, the R code for poly!
It would be nice to be given credit for providing both a precise reference
*and* access to the code for the algorithm used.
> E.g. What do those coefficients actually
> mean ("The orthogonal polynomial is summarized by the coefficients, which
> can be used to evaluate it via the three-term recursion...")? We created a
> GLM model with a poly() term and I'm trying to apply this model in another
> program (grass gis via mapcalc) without requiring the direct link with R if
> at all possible. We'd like to avoid making a lookup table if at all
> possible. Thanks!
The three-term recursion is obvious in the R code for poly().
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