Kauermann, Göran; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Fahrmeir, Ludwig - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 71 (2009) 2, pp. 487-503
The paper discusses asymptotic properties of penalized spline smoothing if the spline basis increases with the sample size. The proof is provided in a generalized smoothing model allowing for non-normal responses. The results are extended in two ways. First, assuming the spline coefficients to...