rcsgen generates basis functions for restricted cubic splines and (optionally) their derivatives. Restricted cubic spline functions assume linearity beyond the two boundary knots. It is possible to specify knots on the original scale, as default percentiles or user specified percentiles. Orthogonalization can be peformed using Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. When orthogonalizing a matrix is returned, which can be useful for regenerating the orthogonalized spline variables for out of sample predictions.
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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S456986.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 10 Date of creation: 12 Dec 2008 Date of revision:
13 Nov 2009 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s456986
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