st: pspline help

["Manisha Chakrabarty" <mchak68@uni-bonn.de>]

Dear Roberto G. Gutierrez

In your pspline , do you have any technical note for that? 
for example how to choose knots and positins of it.Or do 
you have any example. do file?

In my case I have to estimate semiparametric model using 
pspline with some covariates.

Now while it does it for all observations in your dats 
set, if for example I wish to incorporate the location 
information of observational units (i.e, for each 
observation i take all those neighbouring observation 
depending on whether they share a common boundary of 
district), then the knot positions will change, right?

This  check has to be done  for all observations i and 
then we get final estimate of nonparametric part as a 
spline as well as coefficients of parametric part. so if 
i=1,..n, we will get out final result for n observations, 
but pspline should be done by considering the neighborhood 
observsations for ecah i.
 what should I do in that case?
Best
Manisha
			
	
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