Hello people!
I need to fit some generalize additive models (GAMs), and would like to
do this within Stata, if possible, rather than run over to R.
Patrick Royston and Gareth Ambler put a Stata front end (-gam-) to the
gamfit FORTRAN program written by Hastie and Tibshirani back in 1998, but
it runs only under MS Windows.
I thought I'd try compiling the gamfit package from lib.stat.cmu.edu upon
which -gam- is based under Mac OS X, and then see if I couldn't get the
Stata front end to work.
Unfortunately, both the f77 and g77 compilers threw fatal errors, so the
compiling was stopped dead in its tracks.
Before I spend more time on this, has anyone else gotten -gam- to run
under Mac OS X, or tried and found a fatal error which would make the
task impossible?
Thanks,
Bill
[P.S. I last fiddled with FORTRAN in high school, so I'm not much use for
reading the original code and debugging.]
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