Originally proposed in Obermeier et al., 2015, Flexible Distributed Lags for Modelling Earthquake Data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 10.1111/rssc.12077. Here extended in order to penalize lead times in addition to lag times. Ideally the lag-lead window would then be selected in a data-driven fashion. Treat as experimental.
# S3 method for fdl.smooth.spec
smooth.construct(object, data, knots)
An object handled by mgcv
The data set
A vector of knots