Re: st: pspline help

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

This is a reference to -pspline- from SSC.

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In this case it's my understanding that neither of the authors is a
member of Statalist. My advice is to contact Ben Jann as the first
author of the program.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 15 December 2013 18:38, Manisha Chakrabarty <mchak68@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 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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