Fit density using smoothing splines

Estimates the parameters of a density function using smoothing splines.

Usage

ssdFit(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector.

Value

for ssdFit, an object of class ssden. The returned object can be used to evaluate density, probabilities and quantiles.

Author

Diethelm Wuertz, Chong Gu for the underlying gss package.

References

Gu, C. (2002), Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models, New York Springer–Verlag.

Gu, C. and Wang, J. (2003), Penalized likelihood density estimation: Direct cross-validation and scalable approximation, Statistica Sinica, 13, 811–826.

Examples

## ssdFit -
   set.seed(1953)
   r = rnorm(500)
   hist(r, breaks = "FD", probability = TRUE,
     col = "steelblue", border = "white")
 
## ssdFit - 
   param = ssdFit(r)
   
## dssd -  
   u = seq(min(r), max(r), len = 301)
   v = dssd(u, param)
   lines(u, v, col = "orange", lwd = 2)