Set Control Parameters for gam

DESCRIPTION:

Allows control parameters to be set for gam.

USAGE:

gam.control(epsilon = 0.001, bf.epsilon = 0.001,  
            maxit = 10, bf.maxit = 10, trace = F) 

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:

epsilon
convergence threshold for local scoring iterations.
bf.epsilon
convergence threshold for backfitting iterations.
maxit
maximum number of local scoring iterations.
bf.maxit
maximum number of backfitting iterations.
trace
logical value; if TRUE iteration details are printed while gam is fitting the model.

VALUE:

a list, consisting of the five parameters, conveniently packaged to supply the control argument to gam. The values for gam.control can be supplied directly in a call to gam; they are then filtered through gam.control inside gam.

EXAMPLES:

gam(Kyphosis ~ poly(Age, 2) + s(Start), data = kyphosis, 
    subset = Number>5, control = gam.control(trace = T)) 
gam(formula, family, control = gam.control(bf.maxit = 15)) 
gam(formula, family, bf.maxit = 15) # these are equivalent