a list is returned, consisting of the five parameters, conveniently
packaged up to supply the control argument to gam. The values
for gam.control can be supplied directly in a call to gam;
these are then filtered through gam.control inside gam.
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
should iteration details be printed while gam is fitting
the model.
...
placemark for additional arguments
References
Hastie, T. J. (1992) Generalized additive models. Chapter
7 of Statistical Models in S eds J. M. Chambers and T. J. Hastie,
Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.