[R] MGCV:: boundary conditions in gam

[Simon Wood]

This first derivative penalty spline will do it, but the price paid is 
that the curves are often quite wiggly.


library(mgcv); set.seed(5)

x <- runif(100); y <- x^4 + rnorm(100)*.1

b <- gam(y~s(x,m=1))

pd <- data.frame(x=seq(-.5,1.5,length=200))

ff <- predict(b,pd,se=TRUE)

plot(x,y,xlim=c(-.5,1.5));lines(pd$x,ff$fit)

lines(pd$x,ff$fit+2*ff$se.fit,lty=2)

lines(pd$x,ff$fit-2*ff$se.fit,lty=2)


On 08/11/2018 15:26, Mark R Payne wrote:
> Dear R-help,
>
> I have a problem where I am using the mgcv package to in a situation where
> I am fitting a gam model with a 1-D spline smoother model over a domain
> [a,b] but then need to make predictions and extrapolate beyond b. Is there
> anyway where I force the first derivative of the spline to be zero at
> boundaries, so that I simply get a constant value outside the domain?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mark
>
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