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re: [S] GAM & bootstrapping question, round 2

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Subject: re: [S] GAM & bootstrapping question, round 2
From: "Daniel G.C. Rainham" <drainham@ualberta.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:56:01 -0600
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Dear S-users,

In mid-April there was a question posted about the employment of 
bootstrapping after model fitting. There were many great replies from Vito, 
Prof. Ripley and others. Unfortunately, one question still remained 
unanswered.

For example, I am fitting a GAM using the following input:
fit<-gam(y~x1+lo(x2)+lo(x3)+x4, family=quasi(log,mu), na.action=na.omit)
where,
x1 is a factor
x2-x4 are continuous

I would like to run a bootstrap on the coefficients from the fit and tried 
using:
a<-bootstrap(data.frame,coef(glm(fit)),B=1000,trace=F)
followed by,
summary(a)
(Vito's suggestion)

After the 10 minute process was complete I received the following message:

Warning messages:
  z0 is outside range (-.25, .25), this indicates extreme bias, assumptions 
underlying BCa interval may be violated in: limits.bca(object, probs, 
frame.eval.jack = frame.eval.jack)

Does anyone know why this would occur? Or, how I can rectify the problem? I 
know that others have received this same message and apologize if the 
answer has already been posted. Any help would be appreciated and I thank 
you in advance for your time.
Daniel

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Daniel.G.C. Rainham
Climate and Health Research Program
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alberta
Office: 3-13 Tory Bldg
Fax: 780.492.7598
drainham@ualberta.ca
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