We provide several illustrations of Bayesian semiparametric regression analyses in the BRugs package. BRugs facilitates use of the BUGS inference engine from the R computing environment and allows analyses to be managed using scripts. The examples are chosen to represent an array of non-standard...

Penalized splines can be viewed as BLUPs in a mixed model framework, which allows the use of mixed model software for smoothing. Thus, software originally developed for Bayesian analysis of mixed models can be used for penalized spline regression. Bayesian inference for nonparametric models...

Smoothing methods that use basis functions with penalization can be formulated as fits in a mixed model framework. One of the major benefits is that software for mixed model analysis can be used for smoothing. We illustrate this for several smoothing models such as additive and varying...

We given an algorithm for determining the window-size which minimizes mean absolute distance in kernel density estimation and discuss the practical implications of our results.

We construct a simple algorithm, based on Newton's method, which permits asymptotic minimization of L1 distance for nonparametric density estimators. The technique is applicable to multivariate kernel estimators, multivariate histogram estimators, and smoothed histogram estimators such as...